Right on. With the company nailing people to every written letter of the contract, bullying sick pilots, etc. it seems to me that it would not only be fair to retain as much leverage as possible, but to create it by doing things that harmlessly annoy the company -- such as bidding reserve to avoid upgrade. Obviously they were doing this to avoid the 145, but it worked out in a big way for NY based pilots when the company perceived it as trying to avoid NY.