For the people at Transat, it's either going to get much better or much worse. While the contract at WestJet is a contract it could at some point turn into an agreememnt where WestJet does ALL the flying at Transat. Is this stealing? No, it's business. Unless you can bring your cost down to the dreaded non-union level you have to consider the possibility of there not being an Air Transat airline division in the future. WestJet is in a business to show profit and growth to the shareholders just as TransatAT is in business to do the same. In order to do this they have to either grow internally, buy other businesses (as this thread has said), or expand existing agreements. This isn't stealing. When I was at Jazz the writing was on the wall for many years that things would always be fought between Jazz and mainline in fact the company played one side against the other. This is what will happen when it comes time to getting a new contract at Transat. The empoyees aren't in charge of business decisions. The Air Canada unions learned this the hard way. Unions had their peak in the late 90's when they were controlling the business decisions of their companies and look at where we are now. So for the employees at Air Transat who expect the situation to get better I would think you should hope for the best but prepare for the worst.