29 a month to settle grievance that had nothing to do with captain pay or hotels. What you fail to realize is that the so called gains for the pilots were just as beneficial to the company. They were desperate to attract DECs. The hotels in LGA helped with that, now the new DECs aren’t even being assigned to LGA. Win for the company. Being able to tell DECs they can earn captain pay immediately instead of waiting 3 months is a win for the company. It also incentivizes current FOs to take the standing bid. Win for the company. FOs who upgrade now immediately lose the FO bonus, win for the company. Instead of higher pay rates for captains, only new captains get an extra $30 pay raise for 3 months. That saved the company huge amounts of money. Not to mention we just gave away any leverage in this by negating an FO with low time to be able to sit reserve and avoid upgrade to force the company to deal. The company was desperate for captains and we gave it up to settle a flow grievance that was completely unrelated. The so called gains were a sham in that they were just as beneficial to the company but they made so many pilots feel good about it for some reason. Blows my mind. Settle the flow grievance with flow and settle the captain problem with better captain pay. But no, you and many others continue to think the company is working in your best interest. The union rep I spoke to who was on the negotiating committee told me, when I asked about the LOAs, said “if we give the company what they want now, they will be willing to negotiate IN GOOD FAITH down the road.” I almost fell out of my chair.