No, we are not responsible. The critical pay has nothing, at all, to do with anything the pilots voted in, concessions or not.

The company willfully decided after 6 months of running that section of the contract as negotiated to simply ignore it. They payed a lawyer an exorbitant sum of money to come up with something, anything, in the way of a reason for violating the contract so blatantly. He did, and here we are.

This arbitrator was a moron for accepting this case in the first place. Arbitrators are mutually agreed upon. His career could literally be in the balance because whomever he decides against will never use him again.......THAT is why it is taking so long.