If management wakes up tomorrow and agrees to ALPA's proposal, then we get a pay raise and scope but continue to have unproductive lines, lineholders still being treated like reserves FOR FREE, and garbage reserve rules that have been only slightly shined up from where they are now. We will still be the "duty period" airline, reserve will still feel like a punishment instead of a potential way to roll the dice and maybe beat the house by hoping to not get used on reserve days and flying on days off above guarantee, and for the next however many years or months before PBS (assuming it comes at all) we'll all still be step trading out of our own illegalities and conflict drops. But hooray, we get a third step!

Management definitely needs to wake up, but so do we. The most they will ever give us will be what we ask for, and right now we're not asking for much at all. I 100% trust that the MEC/NC are following the direction they've been given from polling/reps, which means pilots are not asking for enough from them.

This contract needs to be absolutely transformative. It needs to cost a lot. It needs to shift the paradigm into an entirely new plane of existence. Scope and pay are critical, but so is scheduling, and as of right now this proposal is a hard no because of scheduling. We can, and must, ask for better.