Great for the pilots at the end of their 30 yr career. Yes. I got mine (26 yrs w DAL) and can coast out the remaining yrs at a great QOL. What I'm talking about is how over the last 20 yrs (POS 96 and on, except for contract 2000, when ALPA actually NEGOTIATED and got us a good contract) the quality of life aspects of our contracts have gotten worse and worse and we work harder and harder for less and less money (overall, adjusted for inflation). We make some incremental gains and the next economic crisis drops us further down then the incremental gains...gained. Overall, we keep dropping, in terms of pay and quality of life. We used to use say talk about how much a 727capt made in the 80's and how adjusted for inflation we were so far below that in the 90's. We never got back up to that bar. Now we use a lower one, 2004. We are trying to get back up to that one and now, finally we are there- except for inflation. Soon that bar will fall by the wayside. And so on. Meanwhile, QOL items are dropping by the wayside and I didn't see any effort to reclaim those in this TA. Just concessions. What about the week of vacation we lost in bankruptcy, 1 for 2, touching trips vacation, the old reserve system, PBS, SLI, the list goes on and on. And so- here we are in a time of record profits, giving back 6B to the the share holders and ALPA signs a TA that, according to credit suisse, actually saves the company money. What conclusion do you draw for the big picture of someone trying to decide if this is a career worth pursuing? Middle East carriers making inroads, Norwegian Air, Open skies, Scope failures, etc.- these threats aren't going away. I wasn't optimistic about the future of this career before seeing POS TA15, but again, if this passes, it is the death knell of this career as one worth pursuing. We have to recapture most of the QOL items we lost in POS 96 and bankruptcy NOW. We won't get it in 3 years when we are in the next recession.