Originally Posted by
SharpestTool
Many on this board have set themselves up by having ridiculous and unrealistic expectations. Even if it is a good TA, it couldn't possibly be enough to satisfy many here. For example, someone just floated the rumor of pay raises that amounts to AMR + 2%, and we retain most of the PS. While one can debate the merit of that and the rest, it amounts to 21.5% compounded over 3 years. Know anyone in your neighborhood getting that deal? I certainly wouldn't be crying about it too loud.
That also would represent the top contract in the industry. Not good enough though. Really, nothing rational will meet the APC standard.
Anderson? Richard Anderson? Is that you?
Please tell me you're not in any way representing me enroute to an "historic contract." In what way would AMR +2, funded by PS givebacks (you said "most") be historic...especially with even a third of the rumored non-monetary concessions? It would be the best in history*?
*history defined as the last ~15 years...or since September 11th...or during and around the greatest global financial disaster since the great depression