A brief moment of entertaining clarity:

Grown men, perhaps a majority of the FedEx ALPA membership, continue to wish for the elimination of their older "brethren" so that they can move up a number and enhance their lifestyles. In the same breath, these "union" members express outrage at pilots who fly disputed pairings to enhance theirs.

And everybody wonders why the company walks over them at every strategic turn. This is nothing but good old-fashioned entertainment.

Gentlemen, start your every-man-for-himself engines. The race to the bottom is on.