your complete lack of knowledge regarding the situation and your condescension has come across pretty strong. Do you think that the only people with any depth of experience dealing with Jerry Glass and F&H solutions is APA? What is being mentioned above was worked on amongst the 3 MEC‘s before any plan was ever brought to American Airlines or APA. American was told in no uncertain terms that the longer it waited the more narrow its options became. So basically you either pay a boatload of money, or you work out some sort of seniority deal. Those are the only real ways to get people to stay at the regionals in the current hiring environment. The amount of money was an almost absurd amount that was presented to American management. When it became clear that APA wasn’t willing to discuss anything to do with seniority, low and behold… The seemingly absurd amount of money quickly found its way to the table.