You guys..your MECs included.. are in quite a pickle. There is NO WAY to divide your pot up where people are going to feel whole. It's impossible even if the company paid every hour flown at the delta in pay. Some will feel slighted in some way.

IMHO, (and I ask you ponder on this for a while before immediately flaming back), to prevent further poisoning of the two groups you all should consider that everyone gets an equal share of the total. Every one has suffered under these contracts. This includes quality of life as well as just the dollar amount of pay. One could rightly argue that the narrowbody group should get more because their works rules suffered a bigger hit than the WB group.

This also should include furloughees who return on first call after SLI. Who has given more of their salary and suffered during this merger more than those guys...or I guess just throw them under the bus...because you can? Not including them would show how...well, we would all know what it says and it wouldn't be something to be proud of.

Benefits:
-Can't be used for SLI purposes
-no long drawn out legal battles..get your money/contract quicker.
-long term is better for harmony...remember, bitterness can last forever..want to work with that until retirement? How much is that worth?
-shows a departure from the all about me culture to all about US culture and what's better for the group as a whole. Ask your self which culture is best to go forward and move on?
-Jeff doesn't get to relish in the fight.

Honestly, at the end of the day, how much difference in money are we really talking about? I've read $400M and divided up by 12k is around $33k. So someone is going to get another 10-15k while another will drop by that amount? Are you HONESTLY going to say that possibly working in a ****ed off poisoned atmosphere for the next 5-30 years is WORTH a few thousand dollars? Life is short people...time to suck it up and rethink this fight.