Ala5ka, this will prove to be a speed bump but not another lost decade for this pilot group by a long shot. Even a likely recession next year will only result, I’d bet, in more mild “growth.”

BM wants growth to feed his ego - he is not quite the slow and steady Boy Scout type that BT was. Now will he be able to swallow the pilot contract pill that will allow his dreams of grandeur is something else entirely.