It starts as something small. Easy scenario here.....In the future we are short staffed and company comes desperately to MEC chair for emergency authority to allow Delta to crew 10 A330's by foreign crews. This proposed TA gives the MEC chair that authority to grant it. Will all of our intl flying go away immediately? No. Just a little at a time as those 10 A330's slowly grow to 25, then 50 etc.

It is truly a massive poison pill. So is an 8% raise worth the risk of losing your job or future wide body job?

Don't think one person can be corrupted or make a bad decision? Go read the Spirit Airlines thread.