Originally Posted by sailingfun

There was no such discussion of the company demanding a revenue neutral contract. Had we opened for 1.5 billion in improvements I suspect we would have had a agreement ontime. In a lounge meeting I listened as the company acknowledged the contract would be expensive. The December ask however was beyond expensive. If we had completed a agreement it almost certainly would have extended all furlough protections to all pilots on the property. That would be a big item at the moment.
To many pilots focus on the union parroting the company had only offered 25 million in improvements. The rest of the story however was that 25 million was not in the contract sections where the expensive items reside. The 25 million was the so called throwaway sections of the contract. Union communications should have read something like this. “To date the company has only offered 25 million in improvements in section 5,6, 13 and 16”. That’s not how communications I read phrased things.