I am wondering how any current negotiations are going:
Southwest, Alaska, Airtran... (others welcome)

USAirways East & West have been negotiating a single contract with management for over a year ...

What are the pilots asking for?

Not enough ... barely the "best of both" contracts in most areas. And payrates that are absurdly low for a company that is offering over 10 BILLION for DAL ...

What is company hoping to get?

The "worst of both" contracts ... and then some.

They provide lip service to the public & investment community and state they will offer the "best of the three" for labor if the DAL deal goes through.

Meanwhile at the negotiating table, they find our SCOPE proposals to be too confusing for them ... STALL, STALL, STALL ... our work rules too expensive to adminster, shouldn't the FARs be enough ? etc., etc., etc.

And they even find it too expensive to reissue our new and improved black uniforms with a HAT ... as required by our contract if the uniform design is changed.