Much of a track record? It's the "style" that brought us to the year 2000 from the beginning of our profession. When Dave Behncke started ALPA way back, the profession was horrible and dangerous. If we had used today's model of gains being offset by concessions, we'd still have a horrid and dangerous profession. Instead, we negotiated for what the gains would be, not the concessions.

Concessionary bargaining is a relatively new phenomenon. But we have many pilots today that have never experienced anything but. In today's environment, concessions should not even be contemplated...only the amount of the gains. Since Delta pilots lead the industry in not one single section of our contract, we can make gains in all sections and keep the NMB happy. If we weren't a non-union shop that is.

Carl