Originally Posted by sailingfun

I am a advocate of short on time contracts. Compounding and dragging your peers up with you is the only way to beat the RLA. 2.75% a year however was never going to fly with the pilot group or me. The company knew contract 2019 was going to be expensive. They knew they were going to need to open the check book. They were however stunned by our 3 billion open on a 5.5 billion contract. Just as 2.75% a year would never fly with the pilot group 3 billion was never going to fly with the company.