You can certainly cherry pick a couple of situations like that and make that case. But when you look at the history of airline pilot compensation over several decades, was C2K really a "massive raise"? In other words, if you look at what the career typically has been worth over that several decade period and factor in inflation, it looks to me like C2K was just a course correction that needed to be made to get it back on track. I guess it depends on how you look at it and how much you value the profession.

I'm not trying to pick on you, Pineapple. (Get it? PICK the Pineapple? ) I understand what you're saying. I just don't really agree that C2K was an inappropriate pay level for us and I don't agree that it was totally because we were in an up cycle in the industry.