Originally Posted by Andy

Kilder,
You're very young and immature. If something as trivial as a future surplus in IAH has created this much tension in your life, I wonder how you'll deal with true adversity in the future.

I think of some of the older ex-Cons that I've flown with - ones that were there in the pre-Bethune era - and I imagine that they hold their heads in shame upon reading your posts in this thread. Those guys dealt with more stress in a month than you've dealt with in your entire career.

This is the airline industry. One day you're at the top of the mountain, the next day, vultures are ripping at your flesh trying to kill you. It's just the business.

The IAH base has experienced several negative developments that are causing a drawdown in the base.
Southwest aggressively moving into the city.
NASA drawdown.
Falling oil prices.

The beancounters, many of which are ex-Cons, have decided to reduce the size of IAH. They are doing that to make sure that we all get bigger profit sharing checks. You and anyone else in IAH who are suddenly crying over the injustice of the decisions made from on high, while being silent on the decisions that negatively impacted others, are going to find no support from those of us who have been through this in the past.

Kilder, bottom line, no one outside of IAH cares. And I doubt that many in IAH care much.