Hi TCMC17RES

Maybe issues such as:
>sick leave changes,
>LCA having first shot at F/O lines of flying before all other F/Os,
>JV benchmarkers moved from EASK to BLK hrs,
and other items "....don't bother you/don't affect you.." however, those are clearly concessionary changes, of significant value to the company. Changes for which there is very little given back to the pilots in exchange. Yes, the pay rates, although anemic, and not what most expected, would probably pass MEMRAT. That is, if not for all the junk on pages 2,3, etc of the rest of this contract. Particularly P/S. When measured against what we give up in P/S, the increased pay raises simply don't add up to 8/6/3/3. Not if DAL makes 6B this year, which will probably happen. I'm not opposed to exchanging an increase in pay rates in return for all of the P/S. But let's negotiate that OUTSIDE of Section 6. The proposed pay rates do get us up to A/A book rates--but we clearly are doing much better than A/A, and 3/4ths of a decade ahead of them wrt merger integration issues. If not more. RA can reach his goal of having a contract before the year is out, and I think he will have that contract. However, we as a pilot group should send a resounding message:
NO. NOT THIS CONTRACT!