Yo Ben,

It would be really great if you would pen a nice missive to the troops on the old LCAL forum (the forum that requires coin to join AND allows scabs) and implore all of the UNITED PILOTS who participate there to flush that forum once and for all and join the UA forum. Perhaps you could suggest that they suck up their anger and post their beef(s) on the (new, combined UA/CA) forum because their next contract, and all the ones after that depend on ALL of us showing a unified front to Willis. This isn't rocket surgery. The old UA is gone. The old CAL is gone. We all need to forget our past and deal with the giant helmet fire that is sucking the O2 out of this place before we auger in.

All the ISL nonsense and "who took my cheese" crap are history. No amount of (sickening, fractious, petty, whiny, petulant) *****ing will change ANY of it.

So ALPA dicked you? WELCOME to the party! But from this day on, our union is all we have to repair what is left of our careers. And The Union isn't going anywhere until several thousand guys retire, at the very least. Fantasy is great, reality not so much. Hell, YOU'RE an ALPA officer! Act like the leader your pilots elected you to be and start the damn dialog. This circular firing squad drill is asinine and wholly counter productive to us, the new hires, and our fellow 121 pilots as we move forward. Get the Leonards pulling on the rope already!

There are massive brown issues percolating and only unity and group HP will avail us the muscle to deal with them. The peeps in Willis are surely taking note of our collective disfunction and laughing their bums off.

And the opener looms.

Fire away lads.