This is a business deal for me. I'm not angry per sey. I just see suboptimal performance and much potential. Even if I were pure emotion, it wouldn't fundamentally change anything. So the whole emotional argument is nonsensical, particularly since humans make every decision, without exception, based on emotion.

That being so, the NC/MEC are in charge of B6ALPA right now. I simply want accountability and course correction. They may have been in the room but they must have intellectually accepted some false promise (that was not in writing) in order to retract the informational picket at a key point in the timeline. That was their failure and they must be publicly held accountable for this failure for the purpose of not repeating the mistake again. This is the real reason I never let things go... because humans make mistakes over and over again because they forget. I make the war analogies because they're the logical extension of everything that is happening here. BJ just pulled a North Korea or Iran vs. Obama. They played the president for money and time so they could develop nuclear weapons. BJ has played B6ALPA (and us) for time and money. Think of the billions they have profited by not paying us for years. Think of the billions they are profiting if we accept the AIP! Obviously money is not everything (it isn't for me) but for the purposes of academic debate, everything can be distilled into a dollar figure. This is the buoyancy that floats all of BJ's playbook. They have translated everything into cost which is why Robin said we can have either pay (at Alaska rates) or better rules, but not both. They have an empirical dollar threshold that encompasses benefits, work rules, and pay. I simply don't agree with their dollar figure threshold because empirically, they can afford to pay us double Delta's rates with industry leading everything and STILL turn a handsome profit.



Sure, I will read the language. I will listen to the road show. I will take it as a reference point from which to build on a counter-proposal. But again, no matter whether I read it the contract or not, it will not change the fact that BJ has already won the money and timeline objectives and played us the entire time. The numbers speak for themselves and I can't ignore them.





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