ALPA or DPA, for the next contract my priorities are:

1. Scope

2. Pay

3. QOL

4. the Rest

Allow me to coin a "new" acronym: SPQR

By Scope, I mean we take seats back. Status quo would be a fail. We have to change our mentality from scoping out flying, to scoping in more flying. I'm looking for current DCI contracts to be allowed to expire and recapturing anything over 50 seats. Scope must include language for JVs and partnerships of various kinds. Boeing ought to have taught all of us the true value of outsourcing your product - it destroys it. Aligning our brand to include the RJs has, among other things, confused our customers with our carry-on baggage policy so that countless of our mainline customers leave their bags planeside with meds and other need items not to be returned to them until they reach their final (often international) destination. This result alone ought to convince our management to distinguish the mainline product.

Anyway, I'm thinking I'm going Roman for the next contract (notwithstanding Italy's current debt crisis). SPQR!