If you listen closely, you can hear the tinkling of glasses and the sounds of matches being struck to light cigars in an executive suite with a smoking room....the smell of wet India Ink on a bonus check....more heady than the smell of purple mimeograph paper in middle school.... an old fashioned brass key with an extravagant fob (fits the door of the Executive Washroom) changing hands......

Somewhere in Washington, (Herndon)......an MEC Chairman from one of a number of regional airlines, ponders this development while reading the add for the Mesa Pilot positions in China.....realizing that a whole bunch of flying was secured for thousands of young American Pilots willing to work for pennies on the dollar under RLA.....thus securing his position.....breathes a sigh of relief.

I was always worried about cheap Chinese pilots....now I realize it's going to be us!