They didn't get future protection???? No contract ever has an iron clad guarantee for an indefinite amount of time. What they got was a contract that their company not only could live with but prospered under. Only when the parent company went bankrupt, did the have to give concessions. You show many any contract that can indefinetly protect against everything and I will gladly start paying my dues to the author. Comair pilots did win.

comair is only bigger because ASA is going through negotiations???? Since most carriers have long periods of negotiations it can be said that any carrier is growing because of negotiations. The only flaw in your theory is that you are implying that they grew because their contract was finish and that growth moved them past us because we were in negotiations. our contract expired in 2002 and WE TOO HAVE GROWN SINCE THAT TIME!

"you don't have to strike to support your fellow union" sounds great in principle, but what can you specifically do? The pilots of another DCI carrier could do a work action, you know, mass sick day, or write up everything day, but those tactics win you no points with arbitrators and are not the official policy of ALPA national.

I really don't see how anything I've said could even remotely fall under the category of "I've got mine". Quite the contrary, I am simply trying to remove the emotion and speak in fact.

And, for hatetobreakit2u, simple answer.... Kinsian economics... all people are motivated be self intrest, plus you can rarely get two pilots to agree on something in the cockpit let alone 20,000 pilots on contract ideas. Too many A++++ personalities.