Originally Posted by
Paid2fly
"Negotiations" allow you to choose not to capitulate to the first offer management tries to shove down your throat, your pilot group could have chosen to join all the others(Expressjet, Envoy, Silver, and Republic) and vote NO! There was still plenty of time before 2017 for your pilot group to come to a much better agreement than the concessionary one that was voted in...
Soooo PDT would have MORE leverage as their clock runs out? Well gosh that makes sense...