company: we want unlimited wetleasing with no restrictions.

NC: sure no problem, but we have to make it at least look like we tried. How should we do that?

company: okay we’ll just cut the wet lease penalty down to almost nothing.

NC: okay sounds good, you’re gonna hook us up
with that pension increase right?

company: yeah, but only once then the A plan is going away. And it’s not gonna keep up with inflation or even get close.

NC: okay fine.

company: oh and we want concessions in all of these other sections. Gotta finance those minimally increased pay rates too… you know we can’t actually increase the cost of pilot compensation to the company, that would make the shareholders upset and they’d cut our bonus.

NC: fine, but you have to help us come up with some elaborate sales material to help sell this to the pilots, they almost caught on in 2015, this time they might catch on to us before the vote closes…

company: done deal. We’ll put our best men on it.