Very frankly because they are competing for what we've already established as a separate and different standard for the piloting profession. Since we have allowed their outsourcing, we'd have to underbid the current operators.

Further, since ALPA refuses to even calculate the real cost of outsourcing; inclusive of lawsuits, crashes, bankruptcies, capital improvements and acquisitions, our own union has this idea that the variable block hour costs are all that matter. The quarter billion our company burned through just this quarter on it's failed outsourcing experiments at Comair & Pinnacle aren't even a consideration.

How do you compete with that?