A321,

The leverage we have are the throttles! Scope will not be discussed at this time, so I am not worried about losing any portion of what we have there. This group ( parker and kirby ) has been told over and over again that they can expect again if we get tired of their crap. All we have to do is just do our jobs period end of story. We stop helping all of the other departments out and just focus on flying safely and things will come to a slow grinding roll. So that is our leverage we don't need to discuss scope. We can talk about the next generation of 175's that is fine because they fall outside of the scope parameters. We have already told them we will fly them no problem. This is a self correcting problem just so long as we hold the line on scope. We know it and so do they, that is why Kirby is out there on his fishing expadiation.

So if the FA's didn't have any leverage then how did they get the payrates? Parker said that when started to make money like Delta then we would get paid like Delta. Well it looks like we are making money like them, so we will see how long it takes for them to pony up the bucks.

Talk to your reps on LOS, they can talk to that much better than me.