Make an effort to call your reps and perhaps the reps from several different bases. Unless they are all great liars which means were in deep trouble anyway you will find they are very consistent on where the surveys came in. Their numbers also match most of the guys I fly with. They are not going to tell you exact numbers but will give you a good idea. The one thing that surprised me is the numbers matched up well with a earlier phone survey. I thought that with the bigger profits since then the numbers would go up.
As I have said on here many times the companies opener is going to stun pilots. At best it will be cost neutral and may even be concessionary. RA feels that we are paid about right at the moment and has no plans for a major raise.
As far as some of the posts on the NMB they are all ready heavily involved in our contract and openers have not even been exchanged. You can view the powerpoint presentation they gave the MEC in JAN on the DALPA website. They understand that the Delta contract is a watershed contract for the industry. They are going to stay closely involved even before it gets officially remanded to them. As I mentioned in other posts this contract will be won or lost behind the scenes in Washington DC and the ATA and Company have more money to buy influence. That is why DPA would be a utter failure. They would have zero influence and it takes years to even decades to build that up. The fact ALPA was able to push through a expensive piece of special interest legislation in Jan gives me some hope however!