If staffing requires 10% more pilots then those additional pilot costs come out of the hourly rates available.
Sorry Jeff, but you're going to have to go back to the safe and bring more money to the table. Moving the same old amount of money under different shells is a tired game.
. Profit Sharing for the CAL pilots will be used as leverage at the table. (the checkairman personally thinks we will get it based on the tone of the profit sharing discussions at the meeting.)
"The tone of profit sharing discussions" at a check airman meeting? I imagine the "tone" was a bunch of yes men all starry eye at Jeff nodding and salivating at every word. There's a reason he speaks at these meeting. Come to the crew rooms Jeff......talk to the folks that actually move the throttles.