I thought your humility the other day was a highlight of what I've read here. You bear scars. I also could bare scars, for I bear scars. Really, I'm hard pressed to think of a better post than yours after intermittent reading for multiple years.

The mediator won't raise rates. Certainly. Nor an arbitrator.

But it informs the baseline we use for comparison. Especially vis-a-vis the trade off in A-380 payrates vs keeping a 260 basis for retirement. He needs to know why he read us wrong.

Further, consider if the company were to raise the basis to 300 or 330. It would be a carrot for guys to achieve amidst the meager availability of pilots that looms before us.

Win-win.