Maybe your right. Maybe I just don't get it. You say you are suffering because of mistakes made by our mainline egos. So your definition of suffering is staying at a regional for a long time and flying larger and larger jets etc. But now you are saying you are suffering because we are trying to take that flying back. So you are suffering either way? Well then how can we win with you?

You are big on history. The initial RJ 50 seat giveaway wasn't done out of mainline ego at UAL. I was there, I went to the MEC meetings, and I listened to what they said. You weren't. At UAL, our MEC Chair (traitor) at the time presented us with the following: UAL is going to grown and expand. You can either expand the 777 flying, or have the 50 seat RJ's, but not both. We went for the 777's. Not because of ego, or because we felt "too good to fly it", but because the better alternative would have been to expand the 777 flying. Hindsight being 20/20, we know now we were sold a big fat lie, and UAL never ordered another 777. The Scope relaxation in 2000 was a giveaway, and a HUGE mistake. The Scope debacle of 2003 was done with a gun to the head and put in a very hard to swallow CH 11 package when the airline was 72 hours from shutting its doors. It's not about ego Joe. I'd gladly go fly a CRJ700 right now if it paid the same as the bird I'm flying. Do you think I LIKE flying the all-nighters to the east coast? It would be MUCH more fun to fly 3-4 legs a day, all daytime flying. But I fly what is the best trade-off available to me for pay/QOL. Just like you do Joe.