I think you are preaching to the choir. Who doesn't want to have excellent benefits and get paid well to do their job? However, Continental doesn't care about your benefits and how much you, the mechanics or gate agents are paid. They don't care if you get cancellation pay either. A lot of what they (bean counters) care about is how much it costs to get people from A to B. XJT has a great product and nobody could ever argue against that. But apparently CAL thinks it costs too much. Delta thinks the cost is fine, since XJT picked up some Delta flying. This is the beauty of a free market economy. I fly the Saab and I won't go fly the Q400 for that terrible pay. But Colgan is having no problems filling the seats with street captains and "no union" voters.