Truth is we should cherry pick the best parts of the contracts, blend them, and make sure that they provide for a profitable future for our company so that we have a place to b!tch about.

I would love to sit 4 hours and get paid 4 hours. Makes sense, if it works for the company, why not. We have to have some measure of sensitivity to the market right now. A market with high fuel prices that does not favor 50 seat jets. Talk all you want about contracts with mainline partners, but if it's not working, you just set an expiration date for your job/company unless you want to work with them to create a good solution --- in other words, ya ain't gettin everything you want. No one is.

If we're stuck on PBS, then agree to a transition process timeline that resolves the bidding system or agree to go to a 3-way binding arbitration with the company as the third party on the issue of bidding only.

Quit getting overly emotional, lord knows your/our negotiators don't care, they're getting paid either way to sit on their arse - paid by the company none-the-less (which is footing the bill for negotiations).