Absolutely not, but they already are. It's an outrage that the mainline carrier has to meet and confer with the DCI carrier when we negotiate a TA, but that is exactly what we did last time. That the favor was not returned this time, is an insult in addition to an outrage. Actually, I use the term favor, but I really mean obligation. So no, I don't want to strengthen the meet and confer clause, I want to kill it. And here, it just tried to commit suicide essentially, and I just wanted to give it a nice little shove, to let it finish the job it's already started.

Again, the clause has revealed itself as a farce, and so there needs to be consequences. I only see two logical courses of action: either the clause should have been followed and we need a remedy for the transgression, or the clause does not apply, and it needs to be removed.

Did I mention I don't like the meet and confer clause?