Standard stuff coming from airline management. It's to be expected, really. Play the class envy card, expect the public to sympathize with them. It's all they've got. You've got to take it to these peons with tough, decisive union leadership, it's the only way you'll get any gains at all in 2005.

Remember, it's not what you deserve. It's what you negotiate. As we like to say, FedEx writes the check and ALPA fills in the amount.