Compensating your employees appropriately is part of having a "very healthy company." Screwing your employees over, just because you can, is ultimately counterproductive to a company's "long term interests." I have no doubt that the company can find a way to pay us appropriately... just like they found a way to get $1.26 billion in new fees or to survive a summer (2008) that included $140/barrel oil. LM and his "proactive engagement" has shielded the company from the normal consequences of mistreating employees, and has hurt the very pilots he was supposed to be representing. We can keep making excuses for why we shouldn't be paid like the top notch professionals we are. Or we can start advocating that we be compensated appropriately. I'm in favor of at least trying. Quitting... especially giving up on something for which I've worked so hard and my family and I have made so many sacrifices... is not in my nature. Sorry.