Originally Posted by
cencal83406
I think you guys screwed yourselves since you had from February 2011 until almost Christmas of 2012 to get a contract.
The 2011 JCBA that Pinnacle signed, was, thanks to a real negotiating team consisting of Mesaba pilots, one of the fastest negotiated contracts in ALPA history. Of course, then you guys could not agree on PBS.
This is America though, where failures are always someone else's fault.
first and last sentences are correct, but let's be realistic about something....the only reason we got the joint contract so fast was because 1. 9e had already been through 6 years of negotiations, 2. The company needed the combined list, and 3. they knew it would be null and void within a year. Not because XJ was a dream team.