I don't think it's any secret that most sections of Delta's contract are far superior to ours, but we certainly aren't going to make up for those deficiencies in our distance learning section. If that's the goal than we're going to need to ask for 500 hours pay per training day.

I still have yet to hear a decent argument as to why this is not an acceptable agreement. Yes, Delta makes more money than we do, but it's certainly not because of our distance learning sections. I understand that an extra couple of hours per year isn't a very big deal, but it's still better than everybody else and we're not making any concessions. Voting no on a potentially industry leading agreement just because we have other weak areas in our contract doesn't make any sense.

We have to also realize that if we save this issue for contract negotiations, it will most likely be neglected in favor of more pertinent issues such as pay rates and retirement. Just seems like it makes sense to take care of this issue now so we don't have to waste negotiating capital on it in August.