DW
he lost my respect and my pension.
I recall in the early days after 9/11 that he said something like: airline pilots can't be "sky king" and "marshall dillon" at the same time.
weeks later he waffled and supported the arming of pilots.
and his salary, quoted as some 300k, doesn't even begin to cover certain perks
including a housing allowance that would make many middle class american's salary look small by comparison.
While a "SOS" (suspension of service) might have been illegal, it was one weapon that alpa could have used to secure our pensions and the airlines...even the threat alone might have gotten bush to sing a tune closer to alpa's than ata's.