While I wanted to see stronger verbage WRT the 117 situation, what has been said so far is acceptable I guess….depending on the results. This is a huge leverage opportunity and whatever we get out of this needs to go directly to those it effects the most. This is mostly a reserve pilot issue and therefore any gain for whatever relief we give towards a mutually workable solution needs to go to reserve pilots, not be used as a piggy bank slush fund for special empires. This will be watched very closely. The end result here needs to make life better for reserrve pilots and not go towards a 6th week of vacation for 26 year pilots or some new way to trip park for double time or whatever.

As for MD, its still way, way too early to criticize in light of everything that's happened to bring his ascension about. And IMO its unfair to be upset that he hasn't jumped out of the gate screaming about a Cadillac-a-month restoration goal. We're not even at the early openers yet. He hasn't even had time to complete the initial base visits and walked right into the company attempting to rewrite our contract by memo to provide relief for something they refused to plan for that they knew was coming for years.

Oh they were smart enough to get that 7th short call, you know, juuuuust for the international categories to provide relief from SC going from 24 to 14 hours…even though domestic pilots for some reason were included in it. Turns out that was a huge relief valve from the realities of 117. For the rest they just issue a memo making up a fantasy leash of 2 hours? Whatever. All eyes on MD right now need to be watching how this plays out. It not only doesn't matter if someone talks "restoration" then allows our contract to be abrogated by management memo, but it would pretty much cancel it out.