Airline pilots are part of the national security system.
Huh????? You mean because we've got Barney Fife in the cockpit with one bullet in his shirt pocket they are now apart of the national security system???
The same thing is happening a DAL that happened at UAL. The company has told them that trouble was around the corner and they just smiled, Pay ME. They were told BK was approaching, Pay ME. They took all they could take for as long as they could take and then....lets talk. I feel for those people at DAL that have already sacrificed and are currently sacrificing while ALPA screws each and everyone of them. What I said stands. Landing on a carrier deck or "fight above the jungles" blah blah blah does not justify the hurt these people have put on this industry. And if you ever talk to them one on one....they admit it. But as long as THEIR getting paid, they just shrug their shoulders and say "what can you do?".