Heck with peak pay of 256 per hr in 2012 the 744/777 rate will only be 31 dollars away or 14%. Add an inflationary cost of 18% or 46 dollars and you get 302 which would be a 34% bump.

Doing that across the board for the entire group at 18 million a percentage point, you arrive at a estimate of 612 million for NWA's PWA rates that mirror restoration plus inflation.

I guess I can see where Carl is getting that number from. Big difference Remember the 777 rate was 319 an hr. in 2004 at DAL.

Using that math you need 94 an hr to get to 2004 C2K rates or a 42% bump, add 18% for inflation and we are at a 60% bump. At 18 million a percent we are at a 1.08 billion dollar bump to go to "restoration" of DAL-S C2K 2004 rates.

Little bit of a disparity. So which restoration is it? The NWA contract, the DAL contract or a moderate "restoration" that is somewhere in between? All of it would be deemed restoration on some level.

Seems Carl that maybe we have been arguing different numbers. Is that the Case?

A billion a year is not chump change, and is a 50% increase to the overall cost of our contract. I see that as doable. Where we go from there, will be about unity.