This part scares me guys.

" Nothing in this section shall preclude the Company from entering into a capacity purchase, code-share agreement, a marketing agreement, an interline agreement, a pro-rate, block space agreement, or joint venture, so long as such agreements do not result in the furlough of any of the Company’s Pilots."

I'm wondering if the reason they rushed out this deal and finally decided to negotiate has EVERYTHING to do with this paragraph. Could the rumors actually be true about code-sharing with regionals?

If they pen an agreement now with a regional, and we use negotiations and threat of strike to abolish their ability to sub-contract..... They will have millions to pay that regional to break the contract. But if we sign this contract..... We may never grow the seniority list by one more person while all the growth goes to RJ's.

Am I reading this correctly?

Why the hell is this paragraph in here?