Originally Posted by
FL370esq
Pretty much....Alaska tried arbitration several years ago with pilot-unfriendly results. Arbitrators are judges without a robe - their decisions are final and are extremely hard to appeal, much less overturn. Mediators are more of a warm milk and Oreos group that want the parties to hug and maybe sing some Kumbaya.
If we end up in binding arbitration and don't like the final result we could always pull a page from USAirways playbook.