I am as happy to see Jeffy get the boot as much as anybody. All that being said, aviation, and commercial aviation, has always been a bit, ahemmmmm, dodgy.

Anytime you have a mix of government (city, county, state, feds) and private enterprise, you have almost continuous conflicts of interest. I think SWA is the most famous for "greasing the skids".

A buddy of mine flying in Guam said we inherited a "special" relationship with the governor and his family. Apparantly, somehow they get to fly for free. This all happened long before Jeffygate, but apparently it continues to this day.

While we are on the subject of corruption, how is it that a long time ALPA hack, who spent almost his entire NWA pilot career in Herndon, VA, ended up showing up to UAL as our SVP of Flight Ops? What did UAL owe ALPA that they had to hire one of ALPA's cronies to a high paying executive position, for which he had zero experience?

Oh yeah, one more thing:

Hi Staller.