I have no idea. I wasn't there when it happened. I hope it was a number that made the company side gulp and take a real deep breath, but not one that made them laugh out loud.

I don't care what the opening integer is. I evaluate as purely as I can(we all have inherent bias) based on the calculated economic/goodwill leverage the union has in a given situation. The Company was in an "ok" situation a year ago and I think our peers had done little to nothing to raise the bar around us, everyone(sans SWA) was lagging our deal by a good bit.... Thus we got an "ok" contract.

Come 2015 openers we will expect to have a company going "great", and our peers will have finally bolstered the comparative levels of compensation by large strides...That bodes well for a "great" contract.

Let's hope the LCC/AMR goes through, having top scale A320A's making the same as a DAL 7ERB on 4th year pay, and top scale E190A's making the same as a DAL 4th year M88B makes it hard to pattern up.