Economic aspects aside, maybe management, shareholders, and the general public finally broke the code on the myth and hype of the major airline pilot's tough job. It has always amazed (and amused) me that the average person thought it was something extraordinary, when in reality it's a highly paid, lazy-man's profession. Even in the service, and at a much lower salary, it was intrinsically easy...but we had 'em all faked-out. Did they catch on to our collective bs on how our compensation barely matched the complicated process of flying airplanes, or was there a sellout by the higher-ups at both the company and union levels?