Does anyone in upper management in America ever get held accountable anymore? Of course not. Accountability is for suckers, or as we like to call ourselves, employees. One upper-level manager--who may have played a part in many of these poor decisions--was let go recently. Do you consider a $13,000,000 severance package an example of holding someone accountable? His golden parachute amount probably resembles pretty closely the savings the company achieved from the pilot group when they forced us into concessions a few years back, a move accompanied by these base closures and other mistakes that are all hopefully being reversed. Anyway, while accountability at the top is a pipe dream, luckily other outside circumstances have changed, and things are looking up at envoy for the foreseeable future.