I saw the expanded verbage and missed the sacrasm. It's a whipsaw nightmare. An IAH 764 does a trip IAH-IAD-Moscow-ORD-IAH... who's flying is it? As ugly is it is, better for all of us to do the SLI and get it over with. My point was (as I think yours was) that both LCAL and LUAL would have been happy to continue the career progression they had pre-merger... nothing more... nothing less.