Really? Why would they negotiate anything when they can simply meter to the minimum and withhold the final aircraft that triggers the flow increase? They've found that doing nothing for us costs them exactly that: Nothing! Why waste effort on negotiating anything? Besides, everyone keeps trying to make the rumor they'll kill the flow. It's like the desperately want it to happen so they can be right. Currently the flow is the main reason people come here. The bases are limited, the signing bonus isn't as good as others, and there's very slow upward movement. That leaves the flow as the sole, defining carrot this company has left to attract newhires. If they killed the flow it'd be more likely to trigger other events like a WO merger and a renegotiated flow.