Logic would have put mediation ending on 29SEP after they had met twice per month, every month, for the previous 6 months. 29SEP was the end-date, but then they scheduled “just one more session” in mid November. And then 3 months will have passed when they return to the negotiating table this month. Every day that passes under our old contract is punishment for our pilot group and a win for the company, but the NMB apparently doesn’t give two sh!ts. We’re beyond anything logical at this point, the mediation schedule has lost any reasoning. We’re subject to the NMB’s unknown political agenda, so there is no way to determine or even guess at a true end-date. Supposedly Spirit’s recent TA is supposed to give the NMB the proof it needs to deem the company’s last offer as ridiculously lacking; it’s really just their latest excuse to kick the can. Their just a bunch of spineless politicians, and ALPA is too fearful to set them straight because the RLA process is the only bargaining process we possess. And the NMB can suspend that process and provide no reason to our group. They are accountable to no one except the people that appointed them. We’ve got a better chance of starting a letter campaign to Trump to receive help than getting released by the NMB because it’s logically the correct thing for them to do.