Heyas,
The NWA guys are giving up MANY, MANY quality of life items from their PWA that will be difficult or impossible to replace down the road.
Cash is the least expensive part of any PWA, and is easy to fix. Cheap cash is what we're trading for our VALUABLE QoL items. Even the cash isn't close to parity. The DC contributions don't even kick in until 2012 (a HUGE savings).
It's no windfall. Get over yourself.
Nu