Originally Posted by MarineGrunt

Ok.... I am honestly not getting something here, so this is a legit question and not a flame, but how can the East committee WALK AWAY and then claim that they are not represented? From my understanding, the east could absolutely participate, they just are CHOOSING not too since they are required to advocate something they do not agree with. If I were a US pilot, I'd be telling them to get their a$$ back in the game and salvage what they can, be it big fences, etc....

To me it seems that they are just delaying the process to see how/if they can challenge this ruling or they just want to torpedo the process altogether. Nothing else makes sense.....