He will not get the reference. The quid has not really been talked about on the board.

As I understood the original report, it was a minimal pay raise & contract extension if we would agree to the scope allowance. The minimal (5 to 10%) has since been jacked through the roof (25% plus). Remember the RFP announcement is talked about by Thanksgiving if not (ironically) Labor Day.

Aside from the cost of setting up a training program, there is not a great difference between the senior DCI pilots and the junior Delta pilots compensation packages that would provide money to reallocate across other areas of the seniority list. I doubt that outsourcing the program would provide anywhere near enough money to give the entire list 2%, much less 25%. (of course it is unlikely we'll ever see the economic analysis that puts price tags on our jobs)

While I do think it is politically possible to put a very large raise in front of the pilots for selling the bottom 1/5th of the list and stagnating the bottom 1/3, very few would break unity for 3%. Further, folks who are willing to call this what it is makes the politics uglier today than it has been in the past when junior pilots believed Comair pilots & 9/11 were responsible for their problems.

ALPA needs to come out and state "no one gets sold." Every member should be able to go to sleep at night expecting the same level of representation.