Allowing management to dump 250 old, inefficient RJs they've been dying to get rid of anyways and letting them by 70 new, efficient, 757-CASM mainline replacement jets they've been dying to get their hands on? Scope down.

Here's a point I've been thinking about the last day or so. Let's say this passes. 2015 rolls around, now you guys REALLY want a restoration contract, a labor-friendly Prez is still in the white house, and somehow you guys get released to strike. Management has 325 relatively efficient, 2-class airframes with 2000-2300 mi range off your list. I think they could operate a fairly decent coast-to-coast network with those assets through a strike, enough to at least get the HVC's where they're going. Meanwhile they have KLM/Air France, and other codeshare/JVs to move everyone overseas. Sure they'd lose money, but I think they'd be confident they could weather the strike and force you guys to back down. Give up enough scope, you make yourselves irrelevant.