Originally Posted by scott stoops

i believe your mec chairman traded something for ps. My belief, nothing more. I have a hard time believing that the grievance was a straight trade, although that makes for a convenient cover that makes everyone feel warm and fuzzy. No company willingly trades 80:1 on a possible 500k award if they litigate poorly and considers it "even". Certainly not uch. They fight tooth and nail for every fraction of a penny not going into a management pocket. So, in my mind, the question becomes what was sold? What did the company buy with 39.5 million?

These kind of transactions aren't really "recorded". I suspect it had something to do with cooperation from one mec chairman. Any cooperation from an mec chairman that cost nearly 40 million is the kind that doesn't benefit us regular line pilots. Just saying. Then again, maybe the company really was scared of the coming armageddon when cal pilots didn't get their non-negotiated pieces of silver...

Btw, you're right, ual pilots completely hosed up scope. No question. So did most of the rest of the industry. You guys did a fantastic job of maintaining it at 50 seats. Dead serious.

I'm all for hoping that i'm wrong about pierce and that we'll have an industry leading jcba in the next year. I just don't have any confidence that we're getting closer to that.