The provisions regarding the Preferential Hiring Agreement between the parties to move 824 Eagle (Envoy) pilots was as a result of Arbitration FLO-0108 under George Nicolau. This arbitration included no other provisions for any other pilots. After that, the parties (namely ALPA and both AMR and Eagle management) met to craft the PPA Agreement. My understanding is that this agreement was NOT an arbitral award, but an agreement outside of that prior to the completion of the arbitration and the arbitrator having to make a legal award and as such is contractual and not legal. It was NOT an award by an arbitrator and there is a distinct difference.

At any rate, as I stated that in a consolidation scenario which can be in several forms, willing agreement is what will be sought and almost certainly occur from the various MEC's. Pay to play or be pushed aside.

Do you think present whipsawing was the ONLY reason to shrink Envoy and make them an equal sized partner in the trio of wholly-owneds while the other two were being built up ?

The primary error was the belief they could build the other two while shrinking Envoy fast enough without teething pains. That has not panned out to their expectations and thus the temporary stop-gap moves of reshuffling some flying back to Envoy who PRESENTLY can handle that flying.