Originally Posted by boxer6

My understanding is all this seeming confusion is interrelated with the F/A's contract that was predicted to be finished by now.

Apparently, now that their negotiations are going to mediation, the timeline for contract/ISL completion is far enough out in the future that they are going ahead with the original (i.e optimized) fleet plan. Unfortunately, this new plan is going to be more of a hardship on the FA's vice the temporary (i.e non optimized) fleet plan. Mgmt was willing to temporarily live with it until the F/A ISL, that's now not going to happen anytime soon.

I hope what I was told the (shameful) reason for the breakdown isn't true.