9 Billion in stock buybacks, a contract that lapsed past its amendable date while the company was more profitable than ever before in its history, and how many millions in stock options will management pat themselves on the back with after this passes... This isn't the first time the industry has gone tits up. The buddy buddy management relationship never works and if it appears like it does it is pure theater. We are a # and nothing more. The contract lets us bid what we can hold in a displacement and bidding certain ways can make it prohibitively expensive to furlough a pilot. This tells them that we aren't seasonal labor and this is a professional career in the only language they understand $.