"What has happened to Pinnacle sucks. The same can be said for Eastern, Pan Am, Braniff, SkyBus, Aloha, ATA, & TWA to name a few. Were you sympathetic to NWA furloughs as Pinnacle/Mesaba/Compass grew at their expense? How about Delta furloughs as ASA/Skywest/Comair/Freedom grew at their expense?"

You know what you keep forgetting? How many of those pilots (Pinnacle/Mesaba/Compass) actually had a affirmative HAND in causing the NWA furloughs? How many of the ASA/Skywest/Comair/Freedom pilots can you NAME who voted on any pact which was s significant cause of Delta pilots being furloughed?

You can't and that's because none of them did. They took jobs, that's it. As far as I know, none of them told management that they would gladly take a pay raise even if it resulted in other pilots' jobs being lost. None, nada, didn't happen.

And therein lies the difference.