Except a lot of the propaganda that your company moles repeatedly fed you along the way was not accurate. Including that our initial ask in 2019 was something like “25/10/10”. That’s verifiable nonsense, confirmed by several sources.

And Covid was responsible for 2 years of the delay, a relevant fact missing from your narrative every time you pat yourself on the back for demanding an on-time contract.

ALPA took the long road and made improvements in nearly every section of the contract, without giving things away to grease the skids. It had to happen, and was never going to be quick. You’re probably right about one thing though- if they had just proposed an extension with modest pay raises back in 2019, it could have been done quicker.

An 8/4/3/3 deal gets us right back to where we are today at 18%, but none of the heavy lifting which makes up the bulk of the value of this agreement would have been done.

Do you see any value at all in gains to scope, vacation, training, deadhead, sick, scheduling, reserve, rotation construction, medical insurance, retirement, crew meals, per diem, instructor/LCA, maternity, AE bidding, etc etc etc?

Or is it all about Section 3 and TVM?