What happened to all the love Ben? First, let me say it's a honorable thing you do by volunteering for the surplus to EWR. I'm sure many will be keeping track of that. Secondly, what are you going to do for the junior guy that you potentially BUMP out of a Captain seat in EWR?

You've started to use the "us and them" to address the two pilot groups again and back to calling the blue side Brain Surgeons. We've come a long way for you to start that again because you didn't win your carve-out. You admit that your carve-out would be a precedent for all surpluses going forward and I'm sure you know that this little carve-out would perpetuate the granting super-seniority to every pilot surplussed at the expense of all other pilots TRUE seniority. Bad deal and the MEC voted "NO". Tell all the United pilots the vote tally. Not names and LEC's just totals. It was your "DEAL" and you should be the one to tell them. It would be more appropriate to put it in YOUR next Houston LEC RANT instead of just giving it to the APC crowd.

If there is a positive, you were able to persuade the company to break the surplus into three groups. Was it the Houston CP that bailed you out? After all, didn't he put the DEAL together for you to sell to the MEC?