Originally Posted by sailingfun

We reopened negotiations on 18 Jan. Our contracts are negotiated via a exchange of term sheets. I doubt either side had any expectations of TA’s on any section in two weeks. I suspect you think that we sit down at a big table and bang our fists and make demands and the company does the same. The process does not work anything like that. We give them a term sheet for a part of the contract. They normally would give us one also. In a week or so there might be some requests for clarifications. Our professional negotiators review everything with our pilot negotiators. In another week or so new proposals would be exchanged based on the original request.
In terms of timing keep in mind that rather than focusing on key areas of the contract we elected to basically negotiate and rewrite the entire contract. That takes time. Even with exceptional progress relative to the norm I doubt a contract could be completed before summer.