The pilots never got to vote for the first offer. Our MEC turned it down, and rightfully so, it was an insulting slap in the face. Thats the way our system works. The merger committee negotiates autonomously and the MEC either approves the end result or rejects it. The seniority loss on our side was much greater than what the lawyers and MEC reasonably expected we would have achieved in arbitration, so it was rejected. This somehow insulted Gary? He knew how our process worked.

Our only mistake is that we thought we were dealing with honorable people. Clearly we were wrong in that respect.