This is all noise. Speculate all you want. Bottom line is, 30 plus percent of JB pilots fly 10 hr. 3 days, 80 plus percent won't get a vacation in the summer, or X-mas holiday. Scheduling controls every aspect of open time to prevent line holders from accessing trips before they assign them to reserves, reserve guys don't know if they have to commute in the night before until at least noon the day before. Many RSA's *****s have deals with scheduling, and most make a good dollar, but have to do so with low days off and sacrificing QOL. (Tunnel vision IMHO). JB will do what they have to do, but if there isn't heat on the feet, they will drag this cost advantage they have to infinity. The speculative optimism by many is pure ignorance. Your 8 percent raise was already implied to Wall Street that the pilot group over whemingly approved their 2017 payrates. Wall Street thinks JB pilots are a happy, content workgroup. I wouldn't equate that to heat on the feet of JB. IMHO, it will be a long, long road to a CBA for the pilots at JB.