helped? umm. yeah i guess thats what you could call it.

of course im just a dumbazz pilot, and not some financial and contract law 'expert'.....

what is sad is it took a ton of bricks to fall on the alpa experts before they could even grasp what was being proposed......and given the historic failure rate of employer owned pension plans....THE primary afl-cio benefit template....one would think such language would have already been enacted before any airline filed bankruptcy.

but then it wasnt.