In this particular thread he may, just may have more insight. However, having flown with some of his peers from Compass I stand by my comments and think he's of a know it all, especially as a newb. You assume that we did not slug it out at the regionals(commuters in my day), fly night freight, flight instruct, etc. Most of us got hired under concessionary contracts, some of us have been on strike, seen the good times, knew people on the flights on 9/11(while he was probably in junior high or high school), went through ch11 with threats of and in some cases a realistic chance of liquidation, exiting ch11, summer of BOB(to get some of the worst things from ch11 changed), experienced short lived upward movement (quickly stolen by the age 60 change), a merger and all that entails(sli, joint contract, complete change of procedures, policy etc), another downturn and now finally the good times again. So yes, I think many of us have better insight overall for a new hire than him.