The point is, we have conditioned the flying public to expect "Perfect One Hundred Percent Accident Free Airline" service, on time, in the snow, for $49.

Maybe instead of telling everyone how easy it is to fly jets (psst, it's much easier than props), if we had more like Captain Tool Box, to tell them that every flight is a near death situation, where they will be hurtling towards earth at 500mph, and only the highest skilled human beings in the world, can save you from certain death, we might have a little more public/political support, next time Management cuts our pay 42% and flushes our retirement down the toilet and we want to have a Job Action.

Instead we have instilled the, "You just push buttons" mentality in our pax. Delta has taken that one step further by actually showing a Captain in uniform, pushing a button marked "FLY", in their new on board saftey videos.

Thank God for Capt. Manno, at least he blows it up to the point where...now I'm afraid to fly!

Oopps...gotta go to work today, I hope we get the long runway in NRT!