Originally Posted by HPIC

My guess….and only a guess…is that JD will refuse to honor the shorter seat lock times for 9-12 months. He will argue that the training department won’t be able to handle the fleet transfers that would come with probably close to half of the currently seat locked pilots coming off seat lock all at once. The union will disagree, it will go to the arbitrator, and the arbitrator will give JD whatever he wants. The arbitrator has already proven he’s JD’s whipping boy, so I don’t expect that to change.

It’s going to be chaos no matter what. I know of a few LCA that are seriously considering resigning from their LCA position and just go back to flying the line. Being an LCA here gives you a 10% pay bump….which is pathetic and not worth the risks involved.