I can tell ya that things may appear to have some movement with a "wham-bam" dealio they are pushing back and forth behind the scenes but here is what is really happening:

The company is entertaining this little lost cause of a quick-fix contract so that after it goes to the way-side and we enter into real section 6 bargaining and they stone wall us, they now have ammo to counter our claims of bad faith negotiating. See, they have just bought themselves a year or two of putting off ALPA negotiators. When we go to the NMB and claim they are acting in bad faith, the NMB mediator will look at the history and see that there was this attempt to have a contract right at the beginning of the process. They will ask what happened and the CO will say it was US not them that was unreasonable and BOOM, the pilot group gets shut down big time.

You think there will be a new contract soon at MAG? Perhaps, but it will be in the style of the one we have now OR it will be concessionary (remember, the CO lost 20 million last year). Heck, they would sign the current contract into effect yesterday if it was on the table. You can BET the CO has something to that effect in their arsenal.


Naw, there will not be any improvements in labor contracts at MAG any time soon. It's nice to discuss things like that and blow off some steam, but then reality sets in.