Why would we shoot him when debunking him is just as easy and a whole lot cleaner too?

Pattern Bargaining is the process of individual pilot groups leap frogging each other based on the gains that a given pilot group has gotten. If AA's true goal was minimizing that process they would've engaged each MEC in NDAs, etc, at the same time, not sequentially.

What their overall game plan is I don't know, but I'd wager an hour of my new raise that you'll soon see ENY and PDT get similar offers with no strings attached. It makes ZERO sense to cripple the hiring of two of your three WO carriers by just giving one of them a raise.

Regardless, I don't see any WO carrier making significant monetary gains above what PSA has, simply because of the fact that flow has value, as I've heard our union math nerd say.