See? You're pontificating about someone you've never met. "Joe" isn't afraid to fail and he isn't jealous. He's lazy. He enjoys his time off, either at his cabin in the mountains or on his sailboat in FL. Why would he want to start over again, take a huge pay cut that would take 10 years to recoup, and lose his seniority just to do the EXACT SAME JOB on a bigger plane?

Some said "a future"? Think outside the box. ASA isn't going anywhere. Some airline will always need feed, as Pan Am proved. ASA in particular has a bright future... even if it's not with DAL.

The bottom line is that "Joe" points out the irony in a lot of the mainline pilots' attitudes that "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine". I agree with him when he says that you shouldn't have let the horse out of the barn with scope. But you did. Now it's too late, because that horse mated with the other horses that got out and created a gigantic herd of wild mavericks. You can't put that back in the barn. So instead of posturing and running your mouths about taking it back, and pounding your chests, why don't we just find a way to mutually coexist?