Thank you for your condescending and completely short-sighted reply.

Your argument sounds an awful like the stuff you hear from gun control zealots: "Why would you want an assault rifle unless you're going on a killing spree?"

I'm not worried about "getting mine;" I rarely call in sick. I'm not necessarily even worried about that stipulation now or in the immediate future. But "this is the way it's worked in the past" is a p!ss poor substitute for ironclad contractual protection (which, historically, we shouldn't expect from ALPA).

I'm concerned that future leadership administrations will use this to take hostages if things get heated in future contract talks, etc. (not that's even possible with ALPA on their side).

Have you seen what Smisek, Horton, Parker, Tilton, etc. have tried to pull? If you think Sleepy Ed or the next sociopath to run the company won't come after us with every loophole they can find if we start growing a spine, I guess I can't help you.

Wouldn't it be nice if ALPA thought a few moves ahead? Think of it as chess, not "go fish."