Not necessarily true. Friend of mine is still awaiting training for a bid in August. Still no training date. Not pay protected until 2 months after conversion date....so, March for him. It's been 6 months where he is unable to make concrete plans(and counting).Oh, and if they train out of seniority, it is not ALL who are pay protected above....it is a 1 for 1 pay protection. So, some things better....some things worse. We are not politicians where we get to only pick the good out of other union contracts and portray our contract as woefully lacking. We are pilots and do it too (the pols have nothing on us)