Went to the road show yesterday and learned some things about the TA. I think it is a good TA, not perfect but pretty good. All the guys that retired since the ammendable date and also quit ALPA right before they got their last check have NO character. This TA really helps those guys with regard to retiree health care. Anybody want to start a list of the guys that were nonmembers and retired during the ammendable date?

BC kept refering to the company changing their tune around middle summer. Thanks MD11FOs and UPS. I think every capt retiring under this contract needs to buy their FOs beer. This is two TAs in row that fixed retiring problems: first one fixed OBRA problem on pension and now this TA addresses retiree health care. I hope the young FOs will worry about me as much when I am about to retire.

With the widebody intl. capts getting a big bump with rig and intl. override increase anybody think they will start buying beer(especially the purple ones).