and the pilots that got hired at the 3 legacies this year are going to be envied and cursed for decades to come
Envied and cursed? Who does that? Everyone knows that it's all timing and luck in this industry and the seniority game. No one asks to be at the bottom of the hiring wave and then bam 9/11. Or bam everyone was treating their home mortgages like a credit card. Or the Middle East. Or oil.