Spoken like a true communist there Comrade. I'll come out and say it since no one else has the cajones to say what they are thinking. I care more about my personal outcome than I do about the "groups" outcome. My outcome puts food on my table.

I love that you feel that the mainline pilots that sold out every generation of pilots after them are entitled to so much more than everyone else. Would you accept a job at a mainline at the expense of a regional pilot? Is the regional pilot less of a human, with less of a need, with a family that doesn't need to eat as much as yours does? Frankly, I agree with Sharky 100%. I hope that Bedford's little experiment works great. I hope that it leads to years of employment for me. I understand that many of you wish the opposite, and the great thing about this country is that you are free to disagree. What I don't accept and will not tolerate is the attitude that I should give up what is mine just to make you feel better. The payrates at RAH were industry standard when the contract was signed...it is being re-negotiated as we speak and I know that it will take vast improvements before I check the yes mark on a new TA. But my telling you that is a waste of time becasue frankly the RAH contract is the business of RAH pilots (yes, including all of our new found co-workers)...it is not the business of everyone else.

Please, all I'm asking is that you go out and do what is best for you...work hard, try to be sucessful, and don't you dare try to keep me from doing the same.

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." -- John Galt