Hired lots of them? A lot of good that did for the remaining 280 Skyway pilots. Thank goodness your training department doesn't have to complain that Skyway people have worn out their welcome's, so to speak...

If AAI had bought YX, there's no gaurantee that ANY of the Big Blue/Li'l Blue pilots would still be employed. With the way that the economy has been and the squeeze that Citrus would've been under, who knows?

Furthermore, weren't the Midwest pilots the group that was telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that an AAI buyout would be bad for MKE? Right... SAVE THE COOKIE!!! Maybe you guys shoulda stood up to Uncle Timmy (even symbolically!) instead of having a Kumbaya-Love-Fest with him?

PEACE!