John why do you think your gona loose your job if you get a substantial raise...like in a post way before this 28% for us is a good bottom line, I don't know about you but this is a job and that's it and im sure I have more to loose then you in this game of cards. You fly airplanes for a company that does business in the terms of billions and you are thinking in million our compensation package has to be within lines of one super regional expectations of us. I now have expectations of them they took away our path to the majors mainly through the short sightness of he very major pilots we once aspired to become...

Is this your first contract negotiations? Im assuming it is this is what most young aspiring pilots are to believe, im gona lose my job if we ask for to much. Hell that's what they want you to believe...BS! Im.sure the first offer will be based on doom and gloom and it will go down and then the next will be better to a point...you get the point. Don't shot yourself in the foot to just move things along due to fear...