What I find incredibly sad is that our two pilot groups are fighting over potential SLI considerations. This is OUR, both UAL and CO, pilot's opportunity to achieve an industry leading contract. One that would give industry leading pay, work rules for quality of life, and stop the contracting out of our flying bringing all furloughees back.

Instead, our unions prolong the negioations and allow our rights to erode. SkyWest will soon be doing 70 RJ flying out of Houston. Negioating capital will be spend trying to reclaim this. Everyday an aircraft moves at our substandard pay, the new company saves money. Our poor workrules allow the company to work us an additional day or two a month. There are over a thousand pilots at UAL working a career outside of their choosen profession.

All the drama needs to stop and we need an industry leading contract now regardless of SLI considerations. The SLI will go to arbitation and if done correctly, everyone will be mad anyway.