Because I'm about halfway up the seniority list, which means I am quite well insulated from furlough. I don't know about you, but I was in this business on 11 Sept 2001. At that point, everyone thought there would never be furloughs in this industry again - much like the prevailing attitude now. Yes, there are many, many more retirements now than then, but don't fool yourself for one single second. It can, and it will, happen again. The only question is when. It might be five years from now, it might be fifteen years from now, but it will happen again. Mark. My. Words. The legacies will lop 3000 off the bottom of a list and not think twice about it. Do I think it will be later, rather than sooner? Sure, I do, but at my age, this is not a gamble I want to take.

Aside from all that, is the fact that every single airline in business today has been a bottom feeder and a shlthole at certain points. Every single one of them. I remember when Southwest sucked. I remember when guys at Delta were taking early outs and resigning seniority numbers to go to Emirates.

It's like buying a stock, you look for one with good fundamentals that is trading below market value and buy it when you think it's as close as it's going to be to rock bottom, then you buy and ride it up. Same principle here.

Frontier may suck hind tit from a pilot's perspective at the moment, but so did the rest of them at some point.

I'll be sure and get back to you on my 65th birthday and let you know how it turned out.