Sorry, but would you please actually go on THE HUB and see and listen to PARKER speaking at a PHX pilot meeting: "Absent the merger with US Airways, AWA would have filed Ch 11 and downsized 20 -30%...resulting in furloughs." AWA ALPA rep Capt. McIlvenna has LIED numerous times, and will not speak about Project Zanzibar, and how poorly AWA was doing. This was not a thriving airline folks! Read the testimony from Parker and Kirby. But hey, they only run the airline, and don't know as much as their pilots do. Many of these kids were in high school, by the way, when current US Airways pilots were flying the line. So why is the Nic award a bit out of line? Please note for those readers outside these two companies, that ALPA Merger Policy was to be heeded by Niclolau (in his words in testimony) and yet was not! Binding arbitration, sure, according to ALPA Merger Policy, but withing the parameters of merger policy. ALPA also gave away US Airways pension without a vote, and much of our contract without even a vote by the pilots. ALPA would have been gone without the Nic list consideration. that was simply the last straw. I don't expect AWA guys to understand, but ALPA years ago refused CLT a recall vote and that was the beginning...it is ALPA for ALPA, and screw your fellow pilot. Goodbye Prater the Dictator