Originally Posted by Andy

Well, there's also another reason for the company to take a bit of time negotiating. Let's say we got a TA in January and it had a pony for every pilot.

What are the odds that pilots would complain that the company is shortchanging us and we want a flying unicorn for every pilot? So the TA gets voted down.

Eventually we get a contract with a unicorn (that flies poorly) for every pilot. It would likely pass but there'd still be a bunch of pilots complaining about not getting supersonic unicorns that poop skittles.