FliFast, really what is the point? Everyone has an answer to our posts no matter how hard we try to get it through their thick heads! Oh yea and while we are at it.....those poor guys at Reno all got screwed as well! Please!

So let me pay for the TW/OZ merger now....good idea....that'll show me! I was riding a friggen skateboard in high school when that merger happened.

"Besides, I have to think they could do much better somewhere else, "

Where? I have no jet PIC to this day because when TWA hired me the Regionals were just that Regional Airlines! So while I was flying 767s over the Atlantic just a few years ago I can not buy a good job today! It is just not that easy! 25 year old RJ captains are more marketable than I am today....so to answer your question.....I have to go back if I want to make any kind of money as a professional pilot! I wonder if your OZ friends had to go through this back in the mid 80's?