Originally Posted by Alan Shore

While I cannot speak for how communications affect anyone else, these are the pieces that raise my expectations for C2015:

PUB events -- MD regularly talks about the fact that, while we've made progress over the past ten years to recoup some of our losses, we still have a long way to go

Contract History -- the financial timeline in the front shows us finally having reached a similar level of profitability (relative to size) as Delta had prior to C2K, and being well above that level in actual dollars; now that our profitability is at or above where we were in the late 90's, I expect similar results

Contract History Summary -- the 777A pay chart shows what I saw in MD's PUB presentation -- although we've made some progress toward restoration, we're not nearly finished, as you have to include profit sharing to even get us close to 2004 in real dollars, let alone restore that year's buying power; I expect significant strides toward that goal

Contract Comparison -- with CAL and USAir gone, the industry landscape is MUCH better than it was for C2012; our major competitors are no longer dragging us down, but pushing us up instead, and they have book rates that are higher than ours in the year or two after our amendable date; this leads me to expect increases significantly greater than those in C2012