Ladies and Gentlemen don't miss this statement it is key to the negotiations:

"it is clear that if we get Management at the negotiating table to simply recognize that the JCBA must be based on United’s CBA and fix the items that we and the CAL-MEC need fixed,"

To a CAL pilot many of the changes management are proposing are improvements on the CAL contract and to even get UAL's current CBA would be a huge improvement in work rules (12% someone said on this forum).

But the problem is Management wants to base all the sections on CAL's contract, which is a net loss for the majority of the combined pilot group (i.e. UAL pilots).

So how would BA look if the expedited negotiations failed? Probably somewhere between the current UAL/CAL contracts. Bad!