Yes. Again, either our contract is equal to Delta's (true parity) or it's substandard. This includes ALL sections. Horton BLEW his opportunity to make a good first impression and that toppled his fiefdom. Now, Parker has still yet to finish writing his first impression, so this issue will define the future "new" American Airlines.

If Parker refuses to match Delta and/or takes advantage of arbitration he'll win, but at what cost ?

All that will ensure is an angry, distrustful and uncooperative group of 15,000 pilots that make the airline run and anchor the product produced by others. If we end up going down that same old well worn road of past failure, Parker will simply be telling Wall Street and the world that the "new" American Airlines will still essentially be the "old" American Airlines and that Airline was not a leader. It would be a VERY bad foundation with which to build what he supposedly wants to build. Even if circumstances change things for the better for the pilots down the road, trust and cooperation will remain casualties of playing a hand that has always lost in the past and the New AA will likely never reach its true potential.