I personally think I was wrong about DPA and ALPA. ALPA has been around longer, they have better lawyers, they've got numbers we don't, they know what the company can afford, I'm going to take their word for it.


Just tossing this out for discussion.

Several "apologists" have stated how great EF&A is ... and I'm not saying they are not. However, they have used as evidence of their greatness that many company management teams have used the EF&A numbers during negotiation...deferring to their greatness.

I would think that if the companies are deferring to EF&A, it is because their numbers are beneficial to the companies, not to the pilots.

Just a thought.