ok ok... we should hear an update tommorrow night on the "payday hotline" I will make sure to plaster the latest and greatest on here. I am very excited about the contract- while it may not happen tommorrow, next week, month, year... Whenever it finally gets TA'd I am sure its going to be good. Those negotiating on the pilot's behalf are playing hardball and are backed up by a pilot group that is very unified. Management also has cards against them b/c not only is the pilot group antsy with em they have already settled with the FA's, big daddy NWA has now given MGMT a deadline- not MGMT telling the pilots "last and final BS". And on top of all of that PNCL MGMT wants to expand under all the banners that it can- hello Colgan- and cannot do anything else until it gets a contract. The contract will slow SOME attrition (mainly at the FO level) and will attract other pilots, as well other main line carriers who see we are professional and (by all accounts) stable. All of these items are prime motivators for MGMT and the PILOTS to get a contract- and a good one at that!