Originally Posted by DAWGS

I had opportunity to get to know JM many years ago. He is a top notch individual. I must say I don't understand the vitriol for a man who negotiated the highest paying contract in airline history for our group. Whomever he supports has no bearing on his accomplishments (alpa/dpa). I wish we had more like him now working for us. My own personal feelings are he was shown the door once he wasn't willing to give anymore. Gave-indeed he did. I feel I would have done the same with the knowledge at the time. Those are tough decisions when your company is at stake.

When our company was making billions, JM got the job done. And yes others deserve credit too. I do know through our conversations, he was very level headed and felt the pilots deserved their rightful due. Today's ALPA leaders haven't even defined rightful due for our group. He produced big in good times. Can the current ALPA do the same? When we are making over 1B a year, that's good times!