I appreciate your answers to the why question that I asked. As for the union folks hating you, I don't think that is the case across the board. What we hate is that some of you guys seem to take great glee in dancing on our graves as we go through some hard times. The "everyone hates us" attitude that you have smacks of paranoia. Of course, when others are out to get you, paranoia can make sense <G>.

I don't think it has anything at all to do with the $$$ amounts at stake. Through no doing of my own, I now find myself making almost twice as much money as the captains at passenger airlines. I don't hate them over it. Now were they non union and for some reason gloating at me all the time about that fact, or hear them rub my nose in the theory that their business plan was going to trump my company's, I might feel some ill will.

The dollars only amount to a "whose dick is bigger" contest. It's the attitude of superiority from many of your own that rubs people the wrong way. We've see airlines like yours come and go over the years, all with a better plan that was going to destroy the legacy carriers. The legacy airlines are like the Sphynx. They were here before you guys showed up, and they will be here after you are long gone.