Originally Posted by
georgetg
Our Achilles heel is the current PWA language permitting 175 seats(or 50%) on every foreign jet if we have four flights/week to their country...
We opened the hole...
Now we need to plug it.
Cheers
George
Well, I guess it all boils down to how much negotiating capital is available to fix everything you are out to fix. It seems to an outsider that the quick agreement that has been much talked about on this board is a pipe dream at best. Is there any way that management is so engaged in the process and accomplishing a quick agreement that they are willing to give away so much of the management friendly language that is currently on the books? It looks like you may in fact be headed down the same extremely long bumpy road that virtually all recent section 6 fights have traveled. One consequence to all the recent consolidation of the industry is that it seems almost inevitable that the threshold of: "substantially interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service," will be crossed allowing the presidential emergency board getting involved and complicating the path to self help.