“The Agreement” mentioned that the $100,000 penalty was necessary in part due to pilots learning trade secrets while in training. I had never before considered that working for a regional airline offered the opportunity to learn trade secrets. Certainly many valuable life lessons are learned, like how to apologize to a planeful of passengers that LGA is LGA-ing again, or that ORD wants 300 on the way in and 250 on the way out, or the Canadian names for the limited kinds of cheese offered at the Subway outside security at YUL. Perhaps those really are trade secrets. Eye opening.