Originally Posted by
LivingTheDream
Um, I'm not a southwest pilot.
We did in fact take a 42ish % haircut plus a large retirement hit... small, methodical increases/improvements are not going to begin to "restore" our losses.
But the sun will more than likely rise tomorrow... so I got that going for me!

Ok. I thought you'd get the point. There was a big leap with C2K. That leap was erased during the era you called the "dark years".
But those "dark years" didn't impact those who chose a path of smaller, methodical improvements, in contrast to the big leap.
I'm providing some history. Here's what you posted:
Originally Posted by
LivingTheDream
While some of the old heads on here don't believe that history is relevant, I do.
If the numbers in history are relevant, then
how those numbers came to be is also relevant.