You know, there's no law of nature that says the company can't be more open about their intent with things like VB and make commitments to such intentions. I have zero regret about us "pulling the rug out from under them" as you put it. They knew we held that rug in our hands and they've thumbed their noses at us plenty. Let it be a lesson to them, no problem here. I happen to think it was bad for the pilot group at large anyway and it seems (non scientific) that many fellow pilots feel the same.

If they want to pour money and time into IT, it should happen at a much larger scale to stave the next major IT meltdown and multi-hundred-million dollar losses. Or they could program payroll to stop stealing millions from the pilot group, since there seems to be no end in sight to their continual underpayment of premium pay/reroute pay/reserve guarantee.