Charging that United Airlines management seemed content to remain stuck in a "fog of mediocrity", pilot Mark Bathurst, head of the United Master Executive Council of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) demanded that the company re-open contract negotiations by February 2008, almost two years before the current contract expires. Bathurst further charged that while airline workers shouldered the bulk of the sacrifice in the wake of the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, management, specifically UAL chief executive Glenn Tilton had been awarded stock shares worth $20 million while failing to upgrade the company's planes and service.
See "Head of United pilots union wants contracts reopened; warns of 'deteriorating' labor relations", James P. Miller, Chicago Tribune, May 30, 2007