I guess I was more just thinking of the flight plan route than all that other jazz. Good points.

End of the day, dispatchers have a certificate for doing what they do. Many dispatchers in other companies are part of a union, and doing their job when the higher ups tell you kind of makes you the weirdest kind of scab in the world. Obviously that would have to be at a company that's, well, I'll just leave it at "not Piedmont".