While I'm on it, I did notice that for SLI pay, it only gave me the ability to increase it or stay the same... no choices to reduce it. Saw the same thing on several areas that I really am not super concerned with, and might have allowed slight decreases in benefits to in order to gain scope and pay... but the contract answers didn't offer me that choice. It appeared to me that the survey was written by SLI-type guys with an agenda to ensure their pay and work-rules were increased, and one-sided questions were disproportionately placed in the survey to ensure that answer was received.
I'm not the most educated guy here on the contract, despite reading all the material I've been sent and a lot here, and it's possible all the scope issues were well covered by the survey... but it sure SEEMED to me that there were more questions on SLI stuff applicable only to a small fraction, and we could have stood to have some questions specifically on AK, specifically on the AF JV, specifically on bases, specifically on positive space for commutes, on putting DAL pilots on equal footing for DCI non-rev to/from work or even giving us priority, on allowing DAL pilots to book the JS for DCI. This stuff is vastly more important to me, and I'd bet to a much larger fraction of the pilot list (who commute or think they MIGHT commute some time in the future, i.e. nearly everyone!), than the SLI list. And YES, I could write all all this into text boxes, but questions should have been asked on this instead.