Originally Posted by eaglefly

My brush is just fine. Might I suggest taking off your rose colored-glasses ?

These points IMO don't necessarily guarantee the NIC, nor support its mandatory inclusion. As I noted in a previous post, the arbitrators statement in that SLI said "each case turns on its own facts". The fact is, there are components to THAT SLI that are inapplicable to this one and vise versa including, but not limited to the fact that SLI was conducted in accordance with ALPA merger policy and there was no previously unconsummated seniority list to consider which rendered one of the two merged carriers with two separated pilot groups pre-merger. I simply don't think piggybacking the UAL-CAL situation regarding this issue is likely to be applicable, but hey, I support your right to try and argue that too.