Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

Since our negotiations will start about 9 months prior to the amendable date, that leaves about a year of negotiations. That is much sooner than the NMB normally gets involved. The only reason it will be a year afterwards in our case (assuming we don't have an agreement) is that we've written that into our contract. Without that, the NMB would not get involved until somebody tries to declare an impasse...which is normally a number of years worth of negotiations.

Therefore, everything I've stated about this process regarding the NMB is entirely accurate. But feel free to continue making a fool of yourself.

Carl