I have never said I have no clue what the opener was. I am very comfortable with the 3 billion on here and others reported basically the same in discussions with their reps. You can still read the conceptual opener. Go look at it again. There were some details that went beyond conceptual. I just posted the vacation section. It was a giant ask basically doubling vacation costs if not more. I also know we asked for a 25% DC and raises that compounded to almost 40% over 3 years. Many of those sections compound on each other. A pilot making 300k currently gets 48K in DC funds. 40% raise takes that 300K to 420K. 25% DC on 420K is 105K a year verses the current 48K. Total comp goes from 348k to 525k. The vacation proposal would for a 20 year pilot take him from the current 5 weeks and 126 hours to 7 weeks and 257 hours assuming no ADG change plus the need for probably at least a 1000 pilots more for the summer schedule. If we increase the ADG to 6 hours a day that 257 becomes 294 hours since our ask was ADG for each vacation day. Carry that over to training since the ask was the same. If anything 3 billion was a conservative number. I asked several reps if it was a valid number. The answer was its ballpark but they would not get specific.
If our ask was something reasonable which I consider something in the 1.5 billion range you can bet your ass the union would be screaming it out loud right now because it would quite rightly galvanize the pilot group and show the company never intended to negotiate in good faith. It would be far more effective than taking off our hats.