I wonder what BRIAN would have said, 5 or 6 years ago, if USair had decided they needed to recruit DEC's to keep the costs down. So they searched the world for a few qualified guys and managed to attract a couple of boeing and airbus qualified captains from the middle east who, conveniently for them, slotted in ahead of say 600 F/O's who were equally, or perhaps more, qualified to do the job of a captain, but hey, the company needed to save money.
Then after being in USair for a while, on captains salary of course, decided he should speak to his fellow aviators still in the middle east and tell them what a great job USair is. Man you just pitch up and step straight into the left hand seat. How good is that. You guys should come on over. Sure you're screwing the careers of several hundred F/O's but don't worry about that. Look after number one I say!
When BRIAN next goes flying and finds that the F/O has sh*t in his shoes while he was out having a p*ss. Maybe he should take time to reflect just how inflamatory his little cameo in the WSJ might be percieved by some displaced F/O.