Lower MPG’s (like those in the LOA) are not a win for anyone. The difference in our block hours in a slow month are not very far off from those in a peak month. The company has always offered more vacation and conducted the bulk of the training during these periods also. The whole migrant worker argument just doesn’t work. If the company could just pay those that they needed to meet the demand for that month then it would, but when they have to pay to carry a bunch of dead weight through the slow periods, the argument falls apart. Migrant workers are paid to harvest the crop and then leave. They aren’t paid to stick around and watch the next crop grow. I looked at this deal as the lesser of two evils, but it is definitely not something that the company would want to keep in a bankruptcy situation.