In four years, I don't know about you FDX727, but I am going to insist on having Concorde payrates at say.....$700/hr so I can call myself "the highest paid in the industry". It'll be cool huh....even if we don't get 'em.

On the serious side, I am IN NO WAY diminishing the hard work and results that the negotiating committee put forth. In fact, I think that the relationship forged with the company during these talks will serve to reduce the animosity that has exisisted in the past between "us and them". To that end, I am sure that it was not forseen that Airbus would be blundering along with the development of the 380, but it might be worth to "test" our relationship with the company and ask for a few bucks back from the "380 slice of the pie". If they do that and are successful, and of course since you don't care, I'll be happy to take your cut.