Nosmo,

I get your points. I've been an instructor. I understand the value of the line guys doing it and have never really bought in to the DGS system.

What I'm saying is that the reality at DAL is they are not going to pay SLI's to commute into any base on a consistent basis. They can man the training centers from within. If you pay for guys to fly into MSP to instruct, then all hell is going to break loose in ATL. You'll have guys, like me, who will want to instruct and commute in from LAX on the 73N. That's a can of worms I can't imagine RA opening. In fact, I'm 100% confident he won't. What will happen is that they'll ask guys who live in MSP on the various equipment there to do the instruction. Or, they'll allow guys to fly in on their own dime and do it. Until we start turning profits in this economy, the other stuff is simply too expensive to absorb.