WB protections look great to me. Good luck to management posting and awarding a remediation bid and then converting the remediated pilots all in a 6 month timeline. I predict a lot of conversions sitting at home with WB pay awaiting training.

Also I like the remediation is based on hours and then converted jobs in a 2 CA/2 FO payment. Could have been 1 CA/ 2 FO.

Agreed. Looks like a ton of Widebody job growth coming. We should be seeing 2007 hires and later into the left seat of non 7ER WBs very soon.
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Maybe even later this week. We're getting close.

Hmmmmm I really hope my sarcasm detector just needs a calibration.

I agree on the remediation being very nice

Converting them is easy. Getting them trained is the hard part.

Maybe I’m a little callous with my first comment considering our cabotage protections, but as to the second, what NB aircraft has a 9+ hour range and a heavy 3 or 4 class useable cabin that adheres to SkyTeam standards like Delta One?

Unless KLM relocates to KEF and travelers are willing to ride a narrow body and make 1am connections in Iceland (Ala Emirates), I don’t see a workable threat. 32N/223/Max doesn’t have the range or payload with a first class cabin for flights much more than 6/7hr + reserves.

Still absorbing the information but a couple of issues jump right out, some of which (AM and WestJet) have already been identified by those on this board. WestJet and AM would still be controlled by 1 E. 2. which limits codeshare:
a. more than 40% of the passenger seats in any month on any pair of flight segments in 13 a city pair (e.g., CDG-ATL-CDG) of such foreign air carrier, 14
b. a monthly average of more than 175 passenger seats per flight segment (e.g., CDG15 ATL or ATL-CDG) of such foreign air carrier on flying other than flying covered by Section 1 E. 2. c. and d., or
c. a monthly average of more than 75 passenger seats per flight segment of such foreign 18 air carrier to and from Mexico, the Caribbean, Canada or Central America,

TL: DR "We didn't think they'd do that..."

ok. I think you might want to brush up on the 321XLR and how Airbus is advertising it to airlines. Segments like TPA-CDG, DEN-LHR are within its capabilities. I understand that on many segments a wide body aircraft will make more economic sense, but my point stands that not addressing a market trend in long range narrow bodies is an error.