Management ALWAYS tries to get the most cost-effective work rules and the lowest pay scales possible at EVERY contract revision. That’s what managements do. If they can’t get what they want they’ll drag it out as long as possible - letting inflation eat away at the old pay scales until the pilot group weakens. That’s management RLA 101.

But a merger JCBA is something that THEY want, otherwise all the time and money spent in the acquisition and merger is wasted, and THEY want it as promptly as possible.

If in this environment of pilot shortage and management need to get this acquisition and operational merger completed we can’t make gains in both QOL and pay, that’s on the pilots union and the pilots themselves, not management. We’ll rarely if ever have an opportunity better than this, but you get what you effectively negotiate for and vote on. And maybe that’s all you deserve.