The union is aware of it, and i'm not sure if it is part of our 2008 contract proposal. A deadhead policy. I just looked and didn't see a proposal.
We have the " "No deadhead will be booked on the jumpseat."
But nothing else.

We at AA are on a 1997 contract of which there was no hourly pay raise since 1992.
There never was a 2000 contract, we voted it down on Aug 31 2001 because it only matched DAL or UAL pay rates with no other contract enhancements.
Don Carty was CEO at that time.
In 2003 as most people know we took a 23% pay cut and gave up tons of other work rule concessions.
I'm off to write some e-mails to find out why it's not in the negotiating proposals.

See ya.