Not surprising. For the last 10 years, airline employees have seen their pay cut by fifty percent, have had their pensions liquidated, have been laid-off, and suffered a long list of other hardships. The current recession that everyone is whining about? Airline employees have been dealing with one for ten years, post 9/11. A few weeks ago, there was an article on MSN regarding flight crew members living in trailers in an LAX parking lot. Very few who posted responses to the article had sympathy for the poor living conditions. That is what the airline profession has come to; not suprisingly, it could lead one to drink. Alot. Lastly, the next time you see an airline earnings report come out, note the loss. You will notice that every single passenger will have had his/her ticket subsidized by the airline and all of it's employees, with no govt. help, intervention, assistance, etc. You may feel outrage over the pilot who had too much too drink; I feel genuine sympathy for a man who has safely flown millions of passengers safely in his career, and had a lapse of judgement. Of course the public deserves and expects sober, well-rested, and alert pilots. However, as in everything else in life -without exception- you get what you pay for.