If you want to get picky, the 30 October 2006 CBA was amendable on 31 October 2010. Per that agreement, ALPA Opened 90 days prior to that date.

We reached a TA on January 27, 2011 - 6 months later.

We ratified the CBA by membership vote in March, and the new CBA was backdated to an effective date of February 28, 2011 - 7 months after Openers.

It was amendable on the first day of the March, 2012, bid period, and again on the first day of the March, 2013, bid period.


To say that we worked a deal in 2 1/2 months is inaccurate, even if measured from the Amendable date to the official TA date. In reality, almost 6 months of negotiations were required on the core sections which were at most administrative, and the bulk of the TA, the LOAs and MOUs (ASAP, FOQA, FRMS/FRMP (Data Collection), Over/Under 60 Flying (ICAO), Iraq & Afghanistan flying, etc.), had been in work for literally years. The only part The Company was in a hurry for was the FDA LOA.



In reality, the process in which we find ourselves mired today began at the end of July, 2010, nearly 5 years ago.






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