While I definitely agree with you that Legacy United pilots have a huge disconnect between what their career expectations were in 2000 versus 2008 (and IMHO incorrectly believe that Continental guys should’ve been junior pilot fodder for the bad luck they endured in the lost decade), I find that most L-UAL guys are far more sensible about the fact that the merged airline had a much better outlook than their old airline....Even UAL circa 2000.

to me, the Continental guys are the ones that hang onto this bizarre notion that they would’ve been better off without the merger and very quickly forget that they were the benefactors of a huge airline turn around. Most people hired at Continental in the 90s were essentially other major airline rejects and accidentally ended up at one of the best majors to work for in the 2000s.

Just my anecdotal data collection from the right seat. And with that broad brush, I’m sure I sufficiently ticked off both legacy groups 🤪