</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">It is possible to take an airline to court and to win, thereafter no other airline will touch you as you are a proven litigant who could cause them just as much trouble - plain fact.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">Not so, Khan. I cite Deborah Lawrie/Wardley, the first woman pilot employed by Ansett back in the ‘70s, but only after she took that company to court for discrimination. . .. .Showing considerably more cojones than many of her male counterparts in AN, (some of whom are now bleating on this thread), Deb walked away from her job with AN in the middle of her 737 command training rather than become a heroine. She is now a captain with a European airline and had been for quite some years.