I assume that when the 2006 Contract was negotiated Management knew the 727 was going away (it's likely they knew they had already purchased 757s) and that the 757 & 737 were likely replacements. They snookered us with an imaginary A380 purchase and REALLY BIG pay rates in exchange for calling the 757 a narrow body. Are we the only ones in the industry that does that?

Different subject ... I don't remember having a trip trade approved in the last 5 years (always DENIED; INSUFFICIENT RESERVES). Here's my hunch ... I'd bet a McDonalds Big Mac that when the scheduler sees the trip trade thats the default reply (likely just a single "Return" key). The scheduler might be able to process 5-6 trades/minute by hitting return, return, return ... This could be fixed by a High School computer programmer in 1 day. Heck, President Obama's Obamacare's programmers could fix that!

And now, no significant retirement improvements, VERY modest COL increases, no improvement in bidding procedures, years of negotiating (part of the Master Plan? to save money?), Management gets your FUEL SENSE bonus. This is a very LUKE WARM deal in my estimation. It seems like LOTS of things could and should have been fixed for very little cost if Management wanted to be bothered?

PBS? That was likely an intentional distraction intended to drag negotiations out an extra year ... it worked! Management wanted to find super efficient cost savings with PBS but can't figure out how to program real time trip trading? Really?

Just ... shut up and color!*?