Originally Posted by sailingfun

Historically you will generally find that when contracts are voted down the deck chairs are rearranged and the next contract does not add a lot of value. Events are the deciding factor along with the RLA pushing all like contracts into a fairly equal cost. Hence again why you want short timely contracts to drag everyone else up with you. Had we reached a TA at the amendable date on the current contract and voted it down we would have been crushed by covid. TA1 to TA2 events were very favorable. Profits were soaring, we had a new CEO who could not afford a labor war his first year and UAL pattern bargained off TA1 keeping us in the NMB’s zone of reasonableness for TA2. Still some of TA2 was moving deck chairs like the loss of 6 months of higher pay and the year extension.