Here's where you and DALPA are so disingenuous: Yes, profit sharing is "at risk" compensation, but so is every other word of our PWA. Our hourly rates are "at risk" compensation. Our JV scope production balances are "at risk" job protections. Our furlough protections are "at risk" job protections. Our hearts continuing to beat is an "at risk" activity.

Singling out profit sharing and describing it as the exclusive "at risk" portion of our contract is being done for the specific purpose of lowering its value in the minds of pilots. If you and DALPA are successful at doing so, it will be easier for the MEC administration to call it a victory when they use a reduction in our profit sharing to fund hourly rate increases. Key to this strategy is the tactic of a constant drumbeat of devaluing profit sharing. Once again, here is how I answered your question of what we should call profit sharing in front if the NMB:

It's a powerful status quo item that gives us tremendous leverage...if we were represented by a labor union.

Carl