You're right about the merger at AA. It is not complete but friends over there seem to think it'll be a cake walk compared to the stuff we did over here. Maybe the AWA/USAir merger and the dumb stuff over here gave them a little insight on how it should be done.

Unlike the poor management over here, their management knows the value of using the systems capable of handling the airlines infrastructure. We continue to have melt-downs in all areas of computqer operation. Including reservations, dispatch, employee services(pay) and for the pilots the struggle with CCS and skynet/flyingtogether.

We have people defending Jeff's decisions because they somehow think he's preserving a CAL way of like. What they don't understand is that Jeff choose the smaller airline methods and infrastructure at the expense of the entire airline. Everybody in Flight Operations has experienced the pitfalls of his poor decisions in one way or the other.

I don't know who'll be number 1 or 2 but we won't be in either spot.