First off - to those of you affected by this airline shutdown, my condolences - having been through it myself with Midway, it sucks.

captjns, Wow, another thoughtful, well reasoned response...hang on, I will get my five year old to translate for me...do you think the "cowardice management" wanted to go out of business any more than the rest of the employees? Do you think that somehow there was an evil conspiracy?

Yea, it sucks huge that they went out of business on Christmas Eve. Maybe they thought they could weather the holidays, make it through to the new year? Who knows?

Crying wolf every single time something bad happens, and blaming the greedy and "cowardice" airline management for EVERY single bad thing that happens is no more valid than blaming Bush for every hurricane and tornado that happens. It makes this forum less an exercise in intelligent thought provoking debate and more about predictably blaming management for everything from the high price of fuel to turbulence.

Yes, management sucks. So do whiny pilots.

Now to bring the predictability full circle, someone, PLEASE, suggest that I am managment, drinking the Koolaid, have SJS, or have my nose up the CP's arse (whoops, that one was already used.)