Originally Posted by GunshipGuy

Make a decision on the fly? Yeah, you could promote shooting from the hip or, I don't know, maybe research it? Or go with making a decision on the fly--"change the bid months in the summer from 31 to 30? Uhh, ok, sure. Explain why that's good for me again?"

As for professional negotiators, doesn't the world understand that pilots are the smartest people in the world and no one can do a better job at anything than us?!!! Companies like GE, 3M, IBM and others are stupid for using consultants. What could an outside lawyer tell us anyway, that our scope wording allows for 3 years of abuse before the avg can be calculated? That would just take away opportunities to fix snafus through LOAs and for DALPA to tell us how awesome a job they did, and everything is better than it ever could be.