Originally Posted by Zman81

It will be years before we have a contract. It will first go through the usual meetings with the company negotiators. Then it will impasse, then file for mediation. Then that will go through a long drawn out process. With the mediator working to get both sides to agree on things etc. You will see them agree on usual net zero costs on different chapters in our contract but other parts not so much. Also right now no mediator is going to side with a union in this market. So my expectations of a current contract in the next 5 years is pretty low. This is my 3rd airline and one thing is for sure the RLA is design to be a long drawn out process. What we can hope for a is a strong recovery, return of the business traveler which still represents a 3rd of our business. Until that happens and profits start to flow in strong we are ........! The only airline that doesn’t rely on any business traveler are the ULCC’s.