First of all, everyone's thoughts & prayers should be with the 19 families who lost a loved one in the AZ fires on Sunday.

Secondly, "AU CONTRAIR MON AMI Columbia". At this very time last year (in June anyway), I was in Afghanistan hoping to be the very first person to vote "NO" on the Tentative Agreement. (Kabul is 8.5hrs ahead of ATL time.) I felt too, that we'd left items on the table with the leverage we had.

You want me to lighten up defending everything ALPA, missy? How about this board lightens up with the doom & gloom lately? Company stock is at a 52-week high. I "assume" the BOD meeting at the end of July will authorize hiring more pilots. There are 200+ airplanes comes in the next few years, & people act like this board is their only hobby?!

I know, I know, someone is going to come on here, "quote" my post and discount it as being a Pro-ALPA supporter, too optimistic, and/or give themselves an excuse to beotch by saying it's an anonymous web board, & if I don't like it, I can quit coming to the thread.

Well, you know what, just like everyone else who comes here, almost religiously, I'm addicted to watching the "group think" of this board & just choose to see the glass as "half full".

Good day,
GJ