What I think the whole sad AE/AA debacle shows is that any kind of flow-up/down/sideways or otherwise agreement is no workable in ANY form with ANY language. The problem lies in capricious, incomprehensible, and mystifying decisions by arbitrators. As long as they are in the process in any way, no contract or agreement is worth the paper it's written on. The decisions of the past year by arbitrators have convinced me of that.