As it worked out, you are absolutely correct. Please consider this scenario; What 9/11 had happened in 2006 and Letter 3 had been extended another 10 years during APA's normal contract negotiations in 2004. How many of those now clamoring for throwing 500 of their fellow pilots under a bus because of all the harm they did would now be fighting off the mobs trying save their seats in 2014?

The sad fact is Letter 3 never worked as planned in its short life from 1997 to the fall of 2001. Only about 150 of our pilots were able to flow before everything came to a grinding halt. Is that the fault of any pilot(s) at Eagle?

I want those guys to flow, but I want them to do it willingly. I strongly supported the TA as the best rectification of what went wrong with Letter 3. Was it the fault of the 500 that a certain party of the agreement torpedoed with with a completely unreasonable demand on Scope? If you really want to lay blame somewhere, I respectfully suggest you look outside our own union. Nobody here wanted to see Letter 3 fail.