If you insist on calling them concessions (and some of them, like the 30 day summer months, clearly are, and I refer to them as such) then can you at least have the intellectual honesty to admit that the company has also agreed to "concessions" as well?

For example, while I still hate the 30 day summer months, in the "good ol' days" of whatever era you choose to dredge up, any month in which a reserve had vacation, mil leave, etc, they got hosed and hosed good. You could have your big week or more summer vacation, and the company could fly you to ALV in the three (or less) weeks remaining!

Now we all have our own personal level of a reserve being full for those months with VTS. That is a big, big improvement to the contract.

I haven't even gotten into the 5.15 ADG that applies to both regular and reserve. That is probably the biggest "concession" that the company has ever given us and it all stemmed from the Part 117 side letter. Please acknowledge that as well.