You're right...I was tempting humor and it came off badly. I just remember when I first got hired at Delta late in 1991 I was based in LAX (the junior base at the time) waiting on ATL. New York was not the junior base yet because Pan Am was fenced in there. We had many former Western Airlines pilots there (especially captains) and sometimes there were still discussions about the Western - Pacific Northern Airlines merger that happened in 1967. I don't mean to say they were overtly bitter...just discussions. BTW I never flew with a Western Pilot I didn't like. Those guys were good dudes.