By an overwhelming 71% majority, JetBlue Airway's more than 2500 pilots voted to join the Air Line Pilots Association, the nation's largest union for pilots.
The crash of UTA Flight 141 in 2003, Iraqi Airways Flight 163 crashes after a hijacking in 1986, USAF pilot plucked out of the Atlantic after surviving a crash a week before and more.
Their role in being the ones out front who often end up being sacrificed for those standing behind them is the reason that they are indeed the pawns of the industry.