Um, actually it's not a "big check" even considering uncle sam. I should be getting about $9,000... With this $10 mil deal I'll be lucky to see $1500 pre-tax.

I'm so dissappointed at the facts of this TA that have been released. Just ridiculous. After all this time. After all this government and media attention. What the heck guys?

If the speculation/points of this TA are true then I guess the folks running the show in this union really are the big-fish in the small pond "professionals" that would rather sellout the bottom half than improve our profession. I'm sickenly dissappointed.

Oh well, I guess we'll soon get to hear from ALPA reps how this contract is so awesome. I'd like to imagine this would be impossible to sell to the pilot group, but since the vast majority of folks I fly with couldn't think or fly their way out of a paper bag without paying Gulfstream/Jet U, Sarah Palin, or Jesus to show them how - It won't be hard to convince them. Nowhere else in my life have I met such a collection of stupidity. What a waste.