Reserve utilization was a major giveback. My understanding - and it may be incorrect as no one has seen the actual language - is that they have gained the ability to assign reserve flying out of seniority order in buckets based on days of availability. That will dramatically decrease the levels at which they have to staff reserves, decreasing the # of pilots needed to staff the operation. Sick accrual is still dismal, and there's nothing that prevents the company from continuing to use red/redder to essentially prevent lineholders from adjusting their schedules. On top of that, they have four months of the year where they can flex the max ALV to 86 or 90 hours (have a nice summer, senior lineholders!) People are acting like this is a win on the reassignment side...it may or may not be, depending on whether management sees the previous items as paying for premium for those reassignments. It's probably going to disincentivize D0 based reassignments to an extent, but not as much as the yes voters think it will. Overall, it's lipstick on the pig of a poor QOL bankruptcy contract.

I never spent much time here until our PHL council sent out a blast recommending that our junior pilots consider leaving AA to come to DAL; I wanted to see what was behind it. Honestly, it was probably good advice and this AIP proves it.