I respect and appreciate XJT pilots. However it seems that spending all that time being highest paid 145 pilots and having the great contract that they did for so long has become meaningless. Like it never happened?! That contract cost the combined CAL/XJT groups a crapload! $.80 of a total union $ went to XJT negotiating for a long time, that happened to coincide with a time that CAL plots were NOT doing well. I didn't sick out because my specific contract was bad and I didn't call for a halt to spending inordinately on XJT. All these airlines have an ebb and flow to them. FFD was a failed prospect from the beginning. If you're a regional pilot, your cheese is being moved, that's all. You just have to be willing to move with it. Not saying I don't want to see your pay go up guys. I feel like at UAL we already did it: we doubled new hire pay.