The whole work from home, dog's barking, TV's blaring, kids crying in the background of every call I get doesn't really inspire.

Doubt if I'll be around to see the JCBA, but we NEVER have had an adequate infrastructure so the merger is probably a blessing for us as a whole. At least the poor 30% seniority CA's will have a job, even if is reserve for the next 10 years.

My poorly made point is we've never invested ahead of the game on the total infrastructure to meet our demand. It's in our DNA I guess. I just feel like we've always betrayed the grunts in the cubes, and those of us on the line have always picked up the slack just to ease the pain of the days workload.

What's really weird is watching the Dania complex going up. I guess they'll just paint it blue or dump the real estate for executive parachutes.

In the end game it's on our group to demand what we deserve when the JCBA comes around. Doubt I'll see it, so my hope is the combined group has the stones to demand it. No reason whatsoever you guys don't deserve UAL parity. Will the new CFI/FO's, and JB guys that have never had it, have the guts to walk if the line in the sand is DTZ ?

A few of us still have some fun stories of the early mayhem. I saw Ned stand up in the front of a DC-9 on X-Mas night (he admitted he was the owner, I have no idea why he didn't hide) and try to explain to the rioting mob why their bags (X-Mas gifts of course) were being offloaded before push in LGA. Then of course the tiny little tug couldn't get traction on the ice for the push.Thankfully, I was just a plebe FO hiding behind the 02 bottle in my corner. Still had to stop in MYR for gas anyway.