aa73---I've never considered you to be a 'TWA Hater', but you have on many occasions tried to rationalize the AA-TWA debacle. You must understand this is a sensitive subject and old wounds haven't healed. Nuff' said.

Dolphinflyer---you're 100% right about TWA training and Captain's Authority, which was paramount and never superceded. Safety was indeed first, and Captains were the cornerstone of that philosophy.

I also have to agree with FliFast that instead of a unified, 13,000-strong pilot force at AA, the group was divided and stays that way.