Originally Posted by
cactiboss
"windfall" is your opinion, as party to this you don't have an impartial bone in your body. A neutral process with and independant arbitrator, which the east picked btw, was used to arrive at the Nicolau, it wasn't imposed on one side by the other. Care to compare that with usapa's process? Btw, what does it matter about 2003 and 2004? You miss the part where Bradford goal was to indefinitely stop negotiations? That alone is outrageous behavior.
I've told you, over and over again, that I disagreed with USAPA's method and their DOH proposal. That doesn't make the Nicolau right, and anyone can see the windfall. The fact that today every single west pilot has an east guy below them on the Nic that is a group 2 or higher captain makes that clear. No thinking person can come to the conclusion that AWA would have been able to grow enough, in this economy, to make that happen. The financial results show that you guys didn't have the kind of airline to make that happen. NO AIRLINE DID from 2005, so AWA certainly couldn't have.
Yeah, I missed the part about Bradford stopping negotiations. Where was it, I'll go read it. I remember the ALPA MEC pulling out and have said that was a mistake and not ethical. But USAPA came back in and started negotiations right away. They have been the whole time, but your lawsuits made that a waste of time.
Bottom line-The TA that you guys wanted, prevented the use of the NIC, or any seniority scheme, without a JCBA. Period. It doesn't matter how or why. That's what happened and that's why we don't have the Nic. The merger and MOU changed the landscape, right or wrong.
On another topic, have you really considered the potential pitfalls of going into an arbitration as a separate entity?