Regarding pay, I keep continually hearing (both from union reps I run into and via the same emails we’ve all gotten) that pay increases are off the table until Envoy sees a slowdown in hiring beyond what they need. Right now, there’s a backlog of new hire FOs waiting on a date and the company seems willing to wait until the waive of 2016 and 2017 FO hires are qualified for captain so I wouldn’t expect any movement on this front any time soon.

Regarding reserve rules, I’ve heard multiple times they are working on reserve rules with the company and the expectation is something positive. I will not speculate on what that is. I know what I would like to see but I don’t know what you’d like to see and a discussion of that here might be counter productive to the negotiations.