For some reason, your last post wouldn't quote.

However, to semi-respond to it, I would like to say that this is the very reson I would ask folks on the L&G to post their contract survey essay answers. So we could help each other fine tune where we stand.

I am not for a seniority list revist in any way shape or form. I am for absolute UNITY. In most ways, you and I have agreed on the DCI merger possibilities and the near-impossibility of that now...Without SWA scope.

I am for scope recapture - Complete recapture. Alaska scares the bejesus out of me. RAH? nuff said. DALPA's actions prove to me they have no interest in recapturing scope and instead that they will continue down the road to dilution.
I am not completely against the international joint ventures, I am disappointed with the 3 year look back change. In some tangible ways, AF/KLM has been and is good for the DAL pilots.

Some of you new guys have stagnated and been drug along the bottom of the ocean during your tenure at DAL. It is no different in the mid seniority either, we are just on better paying equipment. I have said it before - I made more at DAL in years 3, 4 and 5 than I have in the past several years. Payrates are important, but stagnation/ backward movement is the real battle.

In broad terms, I dont have to worry about being furloughed. I am thankful for the job I have and I enjoy doing it. I miss several of the elements of the job on lower paying equipment - better trips / layovers, but I am ok with suffering in silence. (T save your longevity arguement (smiley)). I really miss Europe and India. I dont miss narrowbody domestic at all - you won't see me there anytime soon.

If my wife was on board with it, I'd be already gone to a foreign carrier. I like the expat life (lived overseas for 9 years before I got married). I have said it previously, DALPA is going to get their shot at the C2012, not DPA. I honestly hope they hit a homerun. I am sadly not convinced that will be the case.

As to your statement about USAPA - as a bystander (me) that has watched that trainwreck - I disagree with your assertion that they couldn't get a contract and that the NMB wouldn't listen to them. If they accepted Nicalau, they'd have a contract. Their goal was to not accept Nicalau.