"If you can't live without a greenslip, you are Bushy's Beoch! He already owns you, and you are screwing the rest of us, who are NOT working overtime, and trying to get a better contract!"[/QUOTE]

I enjoyed your entire post but the above statement caught my eye. As JM negotiates a new TA, it is the above availability of green slips and rolling thunder that will prevent any current deal from getting done. There's too many pilots jumping at the massive opportunities of overtime. Raises and QOL mean less. Now, if you leverage this ability to simply fly your "Normal" schedule, you will have the companies attention. Until then, business as usual with no urgency from Ed