Personally, I like DM. When he was in the CP office he went to bat a few times for me compared to his counterpart at that time. How ever I don't like the way the last paragraph was worded to us especially when we get emails and praise about how professional and great our pilot group is.

The company hates training cycles and pilots not flying the line. The timing of SAN opening is a bit strange to me as there are many variables over the next year that could bring massive training events. I'm sure they had multiple people run financial scenarios about opening the SAN base now vs later along with displacements, upgrades, but the biggest variable to me is what does basing and flying look like when the SLI is completed but obviously, thats a ways off.