Keeping up with inflation would be nice but in this industry is not possible. Especially when our competition's caving to 12 pay scales plus other concessions, we must maintain a difficult balance of above industry average pay and competitive corporate cost structure. What's interesting to me is that this is only a 1 year agreement. IMO that so we can re-evaluate our cost, when compared to our competitors, just before DL implements rate resets on us in 2015.

For the first time in my 8 years at SkyWest I'm voting yes.