1. I'm definitely old enough to remember. I've also read all about it in "Tales of the City"

2. My suggestion that using "kool-aid" in the forum is a bad idea is because it's easy to stereotype people as "buying into the corporate spin" just because they don't happen to hate every single thing the "bad" airline is doing. Calling somebody a "kool-aid" drinker is NOT the same as debating the ideas the so-called kool-aid drinker is espousing.

For a DL/NW example from history, I don't care one whit that DL raised ex-Europe award fees, because I don't live in Europe. I know it's one of Carolinian's biggest complaints against DL. That doesn't make me a DL Kool-aid drinker, nor does it make Carolinian a "hater". The IDEA here is "ex-Europe award fees". The STEREOTYPE is "kool-aid drinker" and "hater".

See the difference? Perhaps we both agree on other issues: for a possible example, I think DL redemption levels in practice are horribly inflated, an anti-DL position, and I think DL onboard service at least in Y is better than NW was, a pro-DL position (I don't know if Carolinian agrees with me on this, it's just a hypothetical example). Calling someone with those views a "kool-aid drinker" or a "hater" ignores the idea and misrepresents the person's overall views. That's what I suggest we avoid in this CO/UA merger.

3. May I also suggest we ban snarky "are you a UA|CO employee" comments which have started turning up? That also happened a lot during the NW/DL wars with unnecessary accusations of people being employees or corporate shills.