OK, then. I'll be waiting by the phone Tuesday. Maybe they'll change their mind if oil drops, say, $5 a barrel on Monday.

I know the airline drill. Been around it since I was a young'in. (Pop was at TWA.) I just wasn't expecting to experience the hire/furlough cycle with a month and a half!

It always easy to be bitter, but I’m going to stay optimistic and hope that better-than-expected summer traveling caused the HR folks to open up the TK by summer’s end.

-SH