Come on, Alan. You're a smart guy. I know this isn't lost on you.

If you're management, and you see quotes from the President of our union (and former Chairman of our MEC, who most certainly has close ties to our current MEC folks) that tout how great things are now and how reasonable we plan to be going forward... you KNOW your expectations are that "labor risk" is pretty much off the table (seems I saw a quote like that somewhere ) and pilot costs are not going to increase significantly. Therefore, you're more likely to believe a lower opening position can result in a lower end result cost increase. That's just common sense and basic human behavior.

Now, I realize you have rationalized his quotes and put a positive spin on it. But surely you can see how those same quotes can be taken the way they sound... the way most of us read them.

Heck, even Moak seems to recognize how it sounds since he's privately claiming to have been misquoted. And then there's the whole issue of my ATL reps, who were very clear in their support of what he said in those quotes. So which is it? Are the quotes okay or not? My reps say yes. You say yes. Moak says no. Quite the conundrum, don't you think?