Originally Posted by sailingfun

Sub par results that have given us the best overall contract in the industry and massive gains in virtually every area of the contract since the bankruptcy. The way you achieve those kinds of results are by getting good contracts done on time. The more contracts you squeeze into a given time frame the better the results. Getting contracts done frequently also forces the rest of the industry up keeping overall costs in line with other airlines. That is a key metric to both management and the NMB. Had we kept our contract demands in a reasonable range think about where we would be at the moment. Looking at past contracts a 3 year on time deal probably would have been easily obtainable prior to covid had we kept our opener in the 1.5 billion range. A contract with a 8,3,3 raises, a 2% bump in the DC funding and modest work changes would put us in a vastly better position than we now find ourselves in. It would put our overall compensation today almost 14% above what we have at the moment and close to 17% when we exchanged openers on the next contract. Openers we would have been exchanging 11 months from now! Instead we will basically be starting from scratch 6 months from now and our peers in the industry have also made no gains. If you think there is a prayer of making that kind of loss up in the coming negotiations your smoking some extremely good stuff!