Originally Posted by
Wingtips
I project an 11th hour deal, will Horton really gamble on it, if he gambles wrong a USAIR deal might become an instant deal. A. pilot go out to lunch and 40% of all flight cx for weeks. B. this enters another 4+ months of talks because the judge tells them to get a new 1113, which means nothing new happens at AA, or Eagle.
Not outside the realm of possibility. But it matters little if any changes are simply tailored to get past the BOD. The pilot group is a harder sell, especially on scope. Extremely unlikely anything would get a pass unless scope had VERY specific and defendable language. The '97 RJ agreement and the 7300 floor created too much collateral damage.
What's the point of sugaring it up now, only to have it fail once again in a month ?
Truly a poorly played, ugly mess this is. The irony is that if Horton hadn't put Brundage out front, hired Lorenzo's old player and didn't go for the jugular, we may have been in a completely different place now. Almost certainly, CLA's with Parker wouldn't be in place and that would be a totally different equation.