Originally Posted by PurpleTurtle

Of course it is the math. If Parker is willing to pay all that money to get concessions that he cannot get in arbitration, then obviously we know how much those concessions are worth, even though he won't give us the valuations. Jerry Glass isn't giving up anything this early in the negotiations. There is no doubt this is still a Net win for the company.

Pilots suck at negotiations. Negotiations just got started and people that don't like negotiations are ready to fold to make the discomfort go away, or they are 63+.