It's a sign of the times. The only way to compete, domestically at least, is either to cut cost and/or increase productivity. Legacy carriers, especially in regards to paying their pilots, are just not competitive with LCCs. -- Niraj Agarwalla -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allan9 Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:05 PM To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Next Few Days Critical for Northwest Takes two sides to have a war Al ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:56 AM Subject: Re: Next Few Days Critical for Northwest > Actually, it is more like, "are we going to see yet another airline=20 > brought > down by it's management" > > > In a message dated 2/17/2006 1:47:45 AM Central Standard Time, > mgreenwood@xxxxxxxxx writes: > Are we going to see yet another airline brought down by it's unions?=20