I hung up on the call as soon as I heard we are only negotiating based off the average of the 7 airlines and not including the legacy carriers. What the heck!? And in the next breath they said we don't want to manage expectations but if that's a bi product then so be it.
Contrast that so how Southwest negotiating their contract... They included AA,DL and UA and said they deserve MORE than the legacy 737 drivers because the legacy guys have the ability to move up in equipment (ie pay) which isn't available to Southwest pilots so they needed to have HIGHER than legacy 737 drivers to compensate!
That's how it's done guys. Why in the heck would we remove the 3 best paying carriers from our average?!
You're not gonna find a better reason to polish up your apps boys. The writing is clearly on the wall now.