Originally Posted by John D. Rainey - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President
"The pilots are a very visible group and they're a very important part of our airline. This is a group that's gone some period of time without getting a pay increase, and I think paying our labor groups competitively is important to our philosophy as a company."
Instead of "labor's not needed for this merger," if Jeff had started out with this kind of stroking who knows where we'd be now. We're not bad people. We just want to be treated with a bit of respect for the critical jobs we do--and a fair market compensation for it.