If only.

The feeble validation of the Protected Pilot Agreement was at the expense of the crown jewel of your contract, that being transfer rights with aircraft handed over on a silver platter for what essentially is a large slice of Swiss cheese. Virtually EVERYTHING you had or could do was founded on that single point of leverage.

This statement of yours explains very much why so many present Envoy pilots have deluded themselves about their futures and the risks therein and that is because they get an "F" in history for making no effort to learn it or ditching class to pick up babes and get loaded.