I'm not saying the state of the industry is something I agree with. I'm telling you what definitely won't be in the upcoming TA.

Not a company cheerleader, but it's like ornstein said in the company call: 'we can not afford to give everyone 10% raises'. I'm not saying take his word for it, but the Alpa account auditors came to the same conclusion. The company only makes 1-2% of the profit from flights; we're not subsidized by a parent company like ENY. Even AAG recognizes it's feeders as a cost center. Mesa is profitable but if you notice, we have two spares between Phx and dfw. Isn't that crazy? Any airplanes we have acquired recently are either owned by Somone else, or paid for by the new flying they operate.

So I respectfully ask you, how am I wrong? Call your MEC rep and ask them to give you the bullet points from the last conference call, they'll tell you more or less the same thing I'm saying.