[/QUOTE] But what is amazing to me is that a major carrier can open the check book to outright buy airplanes for another company to fly while the pilots employed by that carrier don't fly them.[/QUOTE]

Don't twist the words, like I said above, the majors are buying airplanes to be operated by other companies and pilots not on the seniority list of the company that is buying the airplanes.

If you can't see the problem here..