Yeah 10% won't even cover 2 years of run of the mill inflation. Of course while getting our pay up significantly is very important, other things like scope are even more important. But most airline execs would rather offer eye candy raise percentages in order to keep extremely liberal scope clauses status quo...or maybe even worsen them.

If RA wants a quick deal with a 2-3 year extension that's fine as long as it is a massive, earth shattering victory in the scope department. Anything less than that isn't worth resetting the NMB clock. But what does he value more...Delta pilots doing Delta flying, or outsourcing by any means necessary, even to a direct fare and yield trashing competitor?

Scope trumps pay because scope is the foundation for pay. And retirement, vacation, work rules, per diem, iPads, kittens, underboob and even our seniority list itself and everyone's relative place on it no matter how senior or junior.

Want a quick deal? OK, fix scope. 76 seaters gone next week. 6 seats pulled immediately. 51-70 seaters sharply reduced in 1-2 years and no additional CPA can be made or extended with all gone in 5-6 years even if the company has to eat the leases (which contrary to the mythological hype is the vast majority of the penalty for the company for early termination anyway...and we pay 100% of the leases in the first place). The AK code share brought back to its original intentions and every quarter our status reps can veto any single code share flight and force its exclusion from the program. Bye Bye 10+ flights a day LA-SEA with zero on Delta metal. Change the AF/KLM 49.75/0/0 to 50.25/49.5/49/5, we get 100% US-Brazil with GOL and can veto any code share flight between cities we serve anyway if we feel its being abused to get around our metal, and we get at least one additional flight from V-Austrailia. They can add a hundred current and future Chinese airlines to the code share mix but we get our current ratio or greater US-China. If Virgin-Atlantic is brought into the mix, they get rolled into the seat kilometers AF-KLM does and we can sort it out then.