I think most can conclude that after a year in the industry. The point was AMR rounding up all their fellow fatcat cheerleaders to support and defend their fatcatism when they may be deprived of their next bowl of Fancy Feast.

It will be interesting to see what AMR does on Monday. Perhaps, they'll counter Parker's move by altering the term sheet requests to essentially match the U deals in an attempt to blunt the threat to their feifdom. I suppose they could even accept arbitration for the pilots and come out with a better deal that theoretically would be binding too.

Of course, none of that still would offer any strength to the absence of a viable business plan and what amounts to a 'no confidence' vote by virtually their entire labor force or as stated before, they could just continue arrogantly on with knife raised high.