What about the top 50 or so lads that were offered the flynn package a few years back....whereby with a 24hr break in service they were all hired back as CONTRACT CAPT'S enjoying all the same benefits they had before minus the pension contributions.....in essence raping the pension fund to the detriment of all junior to them( these senior ex. brown booters, by the way never flew anything heavier than a chipmunk in the illustrious air corp.).....so I for one am deeply saddened by the redundancies here at ALT but over the years with fewer than 20 pilots showing up to union meetings, we only have ourselves to blame.....barney's willie was trained well by the man himself, laughable and charismatic they have slowly engineered the destruction of pay and working conditions and the near extinction of this once proud airline.....