Originally Posted by
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As has been explained to me, arbitrators have to walk a fine line between giving a windfall to the pilot group, therefore ensuring that a company will never use their services again, and giving a windfall to a company, therefore ensuring a pilot group will never hire them.
It's a semi flawed system in that regard.
Yes, but the pilot group changes with elections and has a short memory as the pilot group moves to greener pastures. The company not so much. The arbitor naturally has much more concern for keeping the company happy. If he didn't, he wouldn't have refused to make a decision and wouldn't have directed us back to the negotiating table 3 times after the same negotiations that failed in the first place.