I guess that's the difference between spending 20 years in the left seat vs the right.

In my time here, I have seen plenty of spineless types on the other side of the cockpit. You know, the guys who actually sign the release and are supposed to set the cockpit demeanor.

And please, do not take mistake my point to be about chest beating union issues only. But when a captain is too chicken to write up a known and serious defect out of fear of a phone call from a desk driver, you know exactly where he's going to stand when push comes to shove on all other issues as well.

To flip off the union when every little thing doesn't go your way strikes me as childish. It also says a lot about ones character and little about their opinion of shared sacrifice. There's a reason we make what we do. And its not benevolence from Willis. It has a lot to do with unity.

United we bargain. Divided we beg.