Well I've been watching and working in the industry for the past 37 years, with friends who went to Eastern, Piedmont, Pan Am and TWA when all those looked like the right place to go at the time.

If I had gone to American instead of Delta 30 years ago, I'd still have a retirement plan, a lot more 777's and both BOS and MIA to fly out of, rather than commuting to ATL for the past 19 years. But at that time, AA had the never ending B scale.

You just never know what's going to happen tomorrow.