Again... read the post. I have earned far more for far longer than an old USAir pilot will. He can out earn me for the next 5 years, and I will STILL have more in the bank. It is that inconvenient truth about TVM... Why is it that some of you people want to acknowledge TVM when it comes to our loss of pay via concessions, yet when a real world example is right in front of you you cannot see it? What I think it is is that you look at a pay scale... and ONLY a payscale and think that is the measuring stick by which we judge the success/failure of a contract... Myopic is the word you should look up.

The other thing is that we NEED them to top our payrates... and soon. But guess what. That ain't happening, because all they negotiated was a me too clause. SO again, we have to do the heavy lifting.