Give it a month and they will show you how. History shows that flight schedules decrease in the fall anyway, then add domestic capacity cuts and there you have around 9,000 hours of flying.

I'm not sure that we really realize how bad this oil situation could get for the airlines. The airlines are going to continue to pinch weight for fuel savings as much as they can. This may even lead to government help. But as far as making a decent living after a couple of years goes, that may soon not be the case. Our contract is up for negotiations in 2011. I don't seen anyway possible that we will be able to improve anything by then. In fact, the industry as a whole will probably continue the downward trend of wages and work rules. By that time we probably won't even have flying bennies anymore. What will be the point?