Originally Posted by Bill Lumberg

OH COME ON!!! AMR stuff has nothing to do with us? Are you on the Dalpa NC? It sounds like it. Now our NC has some extra work to do. No more "The NMB will get involved because A They won't be paid severe BK wages if this Parker deal goes through,A asked for too much....." and it looks like he is well on his way to pleasing the creditors (Boeing/Airbus), the Gov't (keeps HQ in DFW) while saving 6200 of the proposed 13,000 job cuts, and the big unions. The new AA/US numbers have just replaced the old baseline for calculating our raises. It's the cost of doing business. And, the more of a raise we get, the more it will affect the new AA when they have to match it 2 years after DOS. Our guys had better start looking at this soon. NO EXCUSES.