Our old pre contract retirement replaced a way higher percentage of our income than our current retirement does. At one time our A-plan had a COLA and our LTD plan didn’t cost 3-7k a year in premiums. This whole negotiating contracts isn’t our cup of tea.

Another pro ALPA point over FPA was they had better assets to cost out contract changes while we were at negotiating table to more quickly realize good from bad and when the company negotiators were FOS.