I had a bunch of Compass guys buy me a beer the other day (I'm an xj fo), I too have only heard of nice things about compass (besides the normal airline problems). I think if we did come together and tried to survive on our own (unlikely at the moment to me, but hey I'll play along), we have all new, large, fuel saving planes, and new pilots (hint, hint, low wages). Why wouldn't we be a fairly big player in the proposed new regional world order talked about in the first post. P.S.- I'm a firm believer in not believing jumpseat gossip (I was expecting the delta-nwa merger every week for about 20 consecutive weeks, ha-ha), but if this idea is true, then compass please don't bring your study-at-home training, and flow through stuff with you. Besides that, I'm ok with you guys. There....you have the approval of a "Know nothin' " first year FO. Merger approved!