Originally Posted by
ATCsaidDoWhat
Nah...they just work for ALPA and are trying to figure out how to explain to their regionals why they can't get them anything but concessions...Moak is praying this fails, otherwise he has a lot of 'splaning to do.
There may be some truth to that.
For example, the regional airlines management probably get together and figure out how they can be united in their front on containing labor costs.
The pilots from different airlines get together on various forums such as this one and figure out how they can be united in doing what they feel is best for regional airline pilots as a group.
It's not unreasonable to hypothesize that different unions and MECs get together to discuss how they might be able to ram something through where one airline agreed to something concessionary and now they need the other airlines to follow suit in order to save face.
What might be nice to see is pilots vote a first offer down only to have the offer amended for the better and passing 6 months later.