Originally Posted by dvhighdrive88

I got no particular side in this but really people? Really? What the hell do you think they do when they merge two huge damn airlines? Leave it as it was?

C'mon, get a grip and quit your useless belly achin'. Your zip, zero, zilch, nada of help to your brothers and sisters or the people you work with whining and moaning about what airline management has done and will continue to do forever. It's their job to maximize the potential of the airline and move the pieces around to find those often abused "synergies".

How well they do it is a whole different subject. Many argue Delta is doing a pretty good job these days and AMR definitely not while UCH seems to be, well....there is no shortage of opinion on that and most of it is not positive.

But really, to sit here and moan like a child about what all of us already know and understand is a complete waste of time.

If indeed you are a professional unionized US airline pilot stay focused on supporting your profession and your brothers and sisters through EFFECTIVE professionalism. Our job, our focus is supporting each other, this profession, our families and getting what we justly deserve for executing this unique skill with the ultimate goal to maintain the safest airline industry in the world. What the management upon high does, you will rarely change and complaining endlessly about it won't do much except fill space on a server.

Stay focused people. Stay safe. Stay United. Your tremendous accomplishment as one of only a handful of major US airline pilots can only be taken from you if you choose. If you wish to retreat inside and handover emotional control to others about your future then march on down to headquarters and wave your white flag mightily. Otherwise, this is just a job in the end and there is an end for all of us not that far away.

Go fishin' or something.