Ha, I don't live in a bitter world, quite the opposite. I do, however, work for a management team with self-induced employee morale issues, who would rather lie to your face and violate agreements than lead by example or negotiate in good faith. I do my job well, I get along well with my coworkers, treat the passengers well, have a good family life. My only issue is you guys.

If the rates above 12 were the issue, and nobody would ever be above 12 again due to flow, then why make threats? If you truly assumed the flow would continue for the length of the agreement, you would have let us have snapback to the old rates if the flow hiccuped. That would have bought you some trust. But you wouldn't. And now you are flowing pilots to AA who will never forget what was done here. I truly believe it would be worth AAG's efforts to look at morale as a cost-saving measure. I also don't believe you guys are capable of that. Would love to be proven wrong.

By the way, your savings over the 10 year contract were less than 0.1% of one quarter of profits. Think about it: 1 year into an 8 year concessionary contract, the most profits made by any airline ever, simultaneous raises for management, threats to end it all if pilots don't take cuts while attempting to turn other employee groups against us, management antagonism, firing union leaders, contract violations, worst schedules ever, and then the cherry on top of you coming on here telling us to lighten up. You're really something.