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DAL 88 Driver
That all sounds good, but it's really just theory at this point. There is absolutely no guarantee (or even likelihood IMO) that we would "pattern up" with greater frequency. What I think would happen is we would get smaller increases with pretty much the same frequency as we negotiate now. In the meantime, we set the tone that we are okay with the small increases and that we consider our current situation a new baseline of sorts.
To me, this is a HUGE risk to take with an unproven concept and something as important as our compensation, which needs to be dug out of a 50% hole.
The same could be said for the boom bust of C 96, C2K and then LOA's 46 and 51. (and of course an independent union at Delta.)
I would like to find a way to get restoration while breaking the trend of these restoration contracts followed by givebacks. That cycle sucks and I am ok with trying something else to see if it works. We always can fall back to our old ways. That part is easy.