Originally Posted by Baradium

Any time you use words like "Curly-esk" you take away from any seriousness in your discussion. This whole concept of name calling when someone disagrees with you is distasteful and too common. It reads more of "he makes a good point, but I don't like it so I'm going to equate him to someone else and call it a day."

I don't think virtual bases are a good idea, but I think the withdrawal was poorly handled. Waiting until pilots themselves started planning based on it hurt the pilots as well as the company. Letting it go so far after announcement and then canceling it was not just vindictive to the company but hurt our own and caused angst among the pilot group. After letting it go so far they should have said "this is the only month we will allow it, we are canceling the agreement."