VILs for up to two years I believe. Other contract gains are permanent.

We were told by some of our "smart" pilots on this board that pushing for profit sharing improvements was a waste of time, because the company would never give it to us. I'm glad so many pilots made it a priority and JBALPA kept up the fight. The fight isn't over, but I believe we are 2/3 there. The single largest problem with our PS plan will soon be dead.

​​​​​I give the company (and JBALPA) credit on this development. They moved off of their "non-starter", which will finally align the company's financial interests with the employees financial interests. It was the right thing to do. It took way too long, but they have moved in the right direction which will long term create better financial performance (Delta has proven this) and will restore a lot of goodwill within the workforce that has been lost (destroyed really, by bad leadership). We all get to have our own opinions, but for me they have bought back some of the goodwill they had lost. It will be up to them if they are able to buy back more.

The new MRA snap-up formula, while not perfect, sets a new much higher floor (A320 CA of ~$356 I believe) for JCBA or independent negotiations. Same is true for the new 17% retirement contribution. All of this should help marginally in the SLI as well.