A couple of remarks about this thread:

PILOTFAN is not really a journalist. He is a student at Embry Riddle who has a website devoted to aviation issues. He is more of a blogger than a journalist and certainly not a professional journalist. He's not a troll either, just an over enthusiastic young man.

Reading about the culture at CAL makes me wonder why so many UAL pilots think that merging with Continental would be some kind of panacea.