Well said MM.
And Bethune was the real deal. I was there in the bad years at Continental and things were as bad as they could get. We'd had, I think it was four CEO's in as many years at that point and were bleeding red ink.
I still remember the day he came into our base and told us how he would turn the Airline around, he was openly ridiculed to which he responded 'just give me a chance'
Well he did it and the transformation was incredible, we became the best airline in the country, the one to fly on if you could and we signed a decent contract in return, it wasn't record breaking but it was considerable better than what United had at the time.
Now there's a sorry operation full of bitter people and poisonous attitudes, shame, they used to be a great airline, I wish we had never got mixed up with them but they didn't ask us.