Thanks, Relay.

Yep, I'm a Westie. We had our pay lowered by 10% and frozen for 4 years, no step increases. That led to ALPA finally coming on property in 92 or 93. We did have a pilot on the creditors committee to monitor the CH 11 process. To its credit, the company did not gut all of our benefits and work rules. It was not as draconian as what the APA is facing. The east definitely got hammered in CH11. That is why I never understood why they have dragged this out. I do think that doing this merger will cure a lot of the ills suffered over the last 6 years for us and the last 10 for the East.