Their strategy when they were selling our 12/4 deal was to play ball now and get improvements later. They realized the 12/4 was garbage but thought there was no alternative, and that the threats from the company were not bluffs.

They also believed the deal would give us leverage in the future because now PSA is guaranteed to exist at least until 2023 due to the language regarding acft in the LOA.

As far as our contract needing improvements think what you will. Our contract is industry standard AT WORST in all but 12/4. Some people have different views on what makes a contract good or bad. My personal view is that time off and soft pay is what's important because that's where the QoL is. If you are getting a bunch of days off with a bunch of credit what else is there? Right now there is no contract in the regional section that can compete with ours in that regard. Period.

This part is just speculation but I would guess what they are trying to do is improve our current hiring agreement into a full fledged flow, or at the very least increase the required number of pilots taken to AAG per month to more closely match our new size. This whole thing is just rumor anyway. There have been no official union communications about any of this.