Simple: The industry's LEADING contract. I'm not saying it has to lead by huge percentages, but it HAS to lead. There is no reason for the industry's best pilots who work for the second largest airline to accept anything less. Especially when that airline is so profitable.

There are many ways to achieve this. My method would be to shoot for SWAPA plus 5% plus premiums for larger aircraft above the MD88. That's just one way. The main thing is that it has to be the industry's leading contract...in EVERY section of that contract. If ALPA does this for us at the end of Section 6, I will consider ALPA to have been a huge success for us.

Carl