No airline that I have ever heard of will give you a choice of aircraft
jetBlue does. You can pick the E-190, A320, or first avail...
Also, the contract is up in 2007, and there should be some significant improvements after that.
Yeah, right... As if your pilots have just now noticed that you have a poor contract, and will do something about it at the first opportunity...
Mesa has always existed on the basis of it's pilot group's willingness to accept a crappy contract in return for growth/advancement. So please do not try and fool anyone with notion that might change. Affterall, Airlines use Mesa only because of your cost, not your quality.
Make yourself more expensive with contract improvments and you will be replaced, just like you replaced sooooo many other carriers in the past...
so what you should say is...
Also, the contract is up in 2007, and there should be NO significant improvements.