Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Arbitrators abhor greed. ALL parties should understand that. Any proposal made by the 3 parties should have some assemblance of substance behind it. The CAL committee in their merger with UAL pilots attempted to reach a bit too far in "creativity" in the minds of the arbitrators and were practically scolded for it. A move that rarely pays off.
There is a huge difference between us and them. See we are not looking to be creative when it comes to LUS. The position has and continues to be the same, we have already done this and a list was produced. The fact that it was never implemented due to the east refusing to put forth a contract is not really material. See this was all done in effort to avoid the results but those results still exist.
I can not really speak on the AA/ TWA merger as I just don's know enough. I was under the impression that they had agreed to the ratio. In any event as a result of that merger we now have the MB law.
I have always felt that if some good can come from something bad then all is not lost. It would certainly appear that due to the TWA's losses that we all, the industry has benefited as a result.
WD at AWA