Was it "doom and gloom" when Paul Cassel's T.A. was voted down. Absolutely not! It was a huge relief. The N.C. doesn't speak for me.......they are supposed to "negotiate" for the pilot group as a whole.......then I vote accordingly. Looks to me like deals were cut for about 25% of the pilot group. Those that are about to retire and those flying International. Paul Cassel used to put his spin on what his T.A. was going to cost the company. Do you expext B.C. to do any different? The only thing different is the verbage. On the last contract the response to items we did not get was "the company was hard over on that". Now it's ..............."un-obtainable".