We need not go any farther. The US/AW transition agreement preceded the Nicolau award. It did call for binding arbitration, yet it proclaimed that that SLI could not be used prior to the negotiation of a joint collect bargaining agreement. We don't have one and never had one. Thus your holier than thou proclamations fall flat.

Perhaps you should have gathered all the information before taking a side. You think?

Now, if you answer my simple question, I will answer anything you want. What inferior contract should I accept to allow the west pilots to receive their windfall? If you can't answer that, don't bother responding. There is an answer, but if you don't know Doug Parker, you probably don't know the answer, thus you don't don't have enough information to make an informed judgement.

Did you know that there was an officer election for USAPA last year? Did you know that AOL(west pilot's LLC) put a slate of candidates forward, and those candidates said they would end the fight over the Nicolau award(implement it)? Did you know that those candidates were defeated by a 2 to 1 margin despite the field on the east being split? There was a price at which the east pilots would have accepted the Nicolau award. It's just that Parker would not pay it.

I can assure you that both parties understood that TA before the process started. The west pilots thought they would take it in the shorts in a SLI with a larger, longer ALPA group. They wanted an "out". It was only after it was used against them that it bothered them. Everyone at ALPA told them the risks of going down the road they did. The warriors didn't listen.

So Wiggy, go study the offer that was on the table to stand alone US pilots-The Kirby proposal. Tell me if you would accept it in exchange for a permanent and continuing decrease in relative seniority.