We are about to lever up to the gills to buy NK so I wouldn't act so superior. Our management spent the 2010s buying back stock and blowing cash on tech startups to nowhere while NK had their eye on the ball. Now we are going to eat years of seniority and have a crummy balance sheet for decades, while NK investors will make out like bandits.

But hey, we got a 3% pay bump by selling scope so we can talk ******* to AA pilots about rates for a little while...

As for the original poster. This pilot group loves to work for less. Our upgrades are going to be measured in decades after this merger. Go where there is movement and the pilots have a spine.