Bingo. The current negotiation committee has nothing to do with the current contract we're stuck with and they claim they're working hard to improve the reserve rules. The senior guys who negotiated our "concessionary contract" did something very similar to what Republic did. We were supposedly getting up to 80 something jets and growing rapidly so in their eyes no one would be on reserve or stuck in the right seat long at all so they put no negotiating capital into reserve rules or FO pay that was even close to being proportional to CA pay. When the TA came out it was voted down by the pilots. Those senior negotiators claim they knew we were going out of business if we didn't get a contract asap. Dornier was out of business and PSA couldn't find parts for their fleet of 328s. The new contract was one to get jets so those guys called an emergency meeting and voted the rejected TA in with only the LEC members. Most of those guys never sat reserve in their career at PSA let alone flew as an FO. They had no clue the perfect storm they were creating for the junior guys but they're not really the type to care anyway.