Retriever. Put down your pipe or whatever your smokin. I don't know how long you've been here, but let me put it plainly.

THE CONTRACT WILL NOT BE OPENED. PERIOD.

And I must educate you on the RLA. Contracts never expire. Never. They are amended. We don't have to even talk to the bozo's until 1/1/2012. Then we talk about Catering, Uniforms, etc. for the first 2 years. Just like every airline contract for the past 30 years does. No meaningful talks will take place until all Furloughees are back by over a year or more. So this talk of negotiating from weakness is BS.