Originally Posted by
Gomerglideslope
it is hard to determine if you truly believe this nonsense, or have just spent such an inordinate amount of key strokes spouting it that it has become gospel for you. However, the rest of the non-usapa universe saw you agree to "binding arbitration"...then when the time came to honor your word, well, we saw what your word was worth.
Your ability to speak for the non-USAPA universe is quite impressive.
What we contractually agreed to (both East and West) was to use a Nicolau Arbitration Award as the ISL, if and only if certain subsequent contingencies occurred... triggering events if you will.
Those contingent conditions never happened. They never will.
The contingencies were agreed to at the insistence of the West pilots who wanted to have a veto authority in order to provide them leverage to negotiate further in the event Nicolau messed up too much, in the opinion of a majority of the line pilots.
The West's only legal mistake was assuming that those contractual contingent conditions didn't really matter.
It was a costly assumption.