Ok lets just be honest here for a moment shall we. So you statement was he gets much greater advancement vs a stand alone. Ok so the very same can be said of that whole merger. The east was dead prior and since has been given new life at the expense of an entire pilot group.

This thing will be over before it starts simply due to the fact that the new company is not going to go on as before nor will the DOJ allow it to merge under those conditions. The company is not going to let itself be sued and the APA will not allow themselves to be held up for years while a court decides that an arbitration is an arbitration. Douglas will finally be forced to act and based on the companies letter to the NMB they know the only out is force the the east into submission and now they have the numbers with the APA to do it.

I am sick of this whole mess and its an embarrassment to even tell people that I work for this outfit. There was an agreement and binding is binding period end of story.

WD at AWA