There won't be a release for a host of reasons, the least of which being the UAL MEC has royally ***ed off the NMB. That's the gateway to a release and given that there was some sort of agreement and then the MEC dropped the "PR firm" issue publicly last week...they're toast with NMB and the WH. Everyone on Capitol Hill is ticked off on one hand and laughing hysterically as well.

Moak is as clueless as he is over a barrel. If he didn't sign off on paying for the "PR" firm...he got threatened with an immediate decert. He knows it's gonna happen anyway. And in the meantime, four offices at Mass Avenue have been given to the "big guys" to use, and FPL approved, so they can lobby Congress for whatever they feel like to placate them.

Moak also has a bigger problem. The person assigned to try and negotiate a steelement with the TWA pilots has screwed it up worse than Hogan's goat. Expect it to go to a jury award instead. For a LOT more than 1.3 billion. The same guy who tried to be "kingmaker" to everyone before the last BOD, thinking it would make him the indespensable lawyer. Sad thing is that he's a pilot union lawyer who really doesn't like pilots.

Union support? AFL is pretty disjointed right now and ALPA isn't seen in the greatest light after Prater and now Moak. It's going to be pretty tough selling a pilot strike to a construction worker who hasn't seen a paycheck in months. Truth is, it's always been tough to sell a pilot strike to AFL members. And given the current politics, whether you personally like the current POTUS or not, labor is going to think long and hard about being a part of anything that gives control of things to Boehner/Cantor/McConnell and the gang.

CAL? Could possibly go in sympathy, but if they're under a seperate CBA and not knowing their "no strike" language, they could be compelled to fly their own equipment on their own routes.

Sadly this whole thing looks like it was not thought through very well. Plan "A" may be a good idea, but you better have a "B" "C" and "D" backup.