Another poster on a different thread said the MEC and the Company didn't really have the idea people would take kids to the FDAs. If that's true, then all of this makes much more sense to me. Get a small number of single and/or empty nesters to bid the FDAs, the majority of the crew force who have families stay CONUS. Win/win for the company and those single guys or older couples who want to live overseas. This LOA, it seems, is targeted to a very specific group of pilots at FDX. You would think the MEC would make that more apparent to us. Albie is still waiting for someone from that group to explain why it's a good deal, but no takers yet. I personally think the deal stinks, I'll vote no, the MEC should have been filling us in 6 MONTHS AGO about this crap, and I think the company will implement the LOA with or without our majority vote. Which makes me wonder why they sent it to a vote in the first place. I think the real message will be sent when noone bids the FDAs and we vote in a bunch of new blood to the MEC.