Zoo,

I do not think you are off base here. You could be right and you could be wrong. There is more to a contract than just pay. You do not need to tell me that the pay at RAH is in the bottom of a crapper. But that could be a simple short term problem. Other things need to be considered.

I do think that it needs to be examined by a third party(outside negotiator with no ties to any of the parties involved) as to which route would be the best for all parties. It may be that the FAPA contract has the best "base" language to start with. It could be IBT. I would be interested to see what a third party would think.