Nice to say, Jay, but not my experience. Of the handful of CMR guys that have been hired at DAL, how many were junior and "had nothing to do with it"?

We all get painted with the same brush. I started class at Comair three weeks before JC wrote his letter. Coming from corporate flying, my due diligence came up with nothing but rainbows and unicorns. Lots of growth, great contract, future was bright. ASA was stagnant and there was a 6-month wait for a class date. Oh well.

Lucky for you that your MEC has never done something you vehemently disagree with.

I've "gotten into it" with dozens of DAL crews. Or, I should say they got into it with me. Almost all were MD-88/737 crews. Even at the height of the furloughs, the 757 and bigger crews seemed oblivious to what was going on. I took no offense, it was their buddies that were being furloughed. A close friend of mine, who had encouraged me to go to Comair, was one of the Delta furloughs. I didn't mind being lectured, yelled at or ignored, about the strike or the RJDC or other things I had no involvement in, all I wanted was a ride to work. Funny that years later, when a MD-88 captain denied me the jumpseat out of JFK simply because I was a Comair guy, most other Delta guys were all spun up about Delta letting Republic fly for/against them out of DEN. I got home 1.5 hours late, no big deal.

It doesn't much matter now, does it?