I'm trying to figure out if sailingfun is purposely attempting to deceive us, or if he really is that clueless.

I believe it is a 3-Pilot crew during the Summer. Block time back is 11:45.

I blame us. We probably all asked for a pay raise and this is how we pay for that raise.

I am so clueless that everything I said about contract 2012 has come to pass. Everything you said? Well at least it's good we did not have the massive furloughs you assured us were coming. I have also asked you twice to man up and put some cash behind your statements about what I said, one of which was to directly go to the emergency fund and your answer was complete silence!
Did you not totally blast a statement I made about seeing 1000 new Captains by the end of the contract. We are passed that number today and climbing!

I expect lots of concessions, but agreeing to one ounce of additional RJ scope relief would be ALPAcide.

Yet it appears that scope concessions are going to be part of any deal presented to us, if this article is to be believed. The fact that TSA and SKW have both aircraft already ordered would lead me to think that a deal has been informally agreed upon, and the details are all that's left. After all, our 717 order was contingent upon our agreeing to a contract. Here it would appear that agreement, in principal, has already been reached... these orders are booked.

When there is some humor to be had. But in all seriousness, what's happening is over a government that is out of control, I don't support it, but I understand it. If it keeps up, the whole country will be rioting, not just in the poor areas.

What's going on there is criminal. It's not civil disobedience. I wouldn't blame anyone for protecting their property, but I know the court of (insert acronym/public opinion) would spin it to destroy the man defending his property.

Bless their hearts.

You haven't lived till you see machine gun mounted jeeps on the street corners (1968). Hey GI! You got gum?

You do know that those deals were inked years ago. Before the last round of contracts the same talking points were being put out stating that all the unions would cave and everything under 120 seats would be flown by the regionals.
What you have are several regional managements with a bunch of aircraft on order they can't fly. They don't want to pay the cancelation penalties and are pursuing every avenue they can to find a way to fly them.