"I have a career expectation of being an international captain someday," said Jack Stephan, a US Airways pilot of 22 years and a union official.

"We're anxious to become a partner in what could become the country's premier low-cost carrier," said Jack Stephan, a spokesman for the pilots' union at US Airways.

"If and when they file, it will not come as a shock to us," said the spokesman, Jack Stephan.

But a spokesman, Jack Stephan, said the pilots "do not disagree in principle with the conclusions reached by our investment banker."

Jack Stephan, a spokesman for the pilots' union, said pilots faced a difficult choice.

Jack Stephan wrote that after receiving "repeated reports concerning inmate abuse," he spoke directly to a group of guards at Bayside.

A union spokesman, Jack Stephan, declined to discuss the details of the offer, except to say that it was "north" of what the company previously requested.

A spokesman for the pilots, Jack Stephan, said that talks could start up again today.

In a message to pilots, a union spokesman, Jack Stephan, said the union's goal was to avoid having the judge impose cuts on employees.

"We realize the necessity of returning our airline to profitability," Jack Stephan, a spokesman for the union, said in the statement.