If that’s the case Mesa won’t be here in a year or two. Last attrition I heard was 5% of the pilot group a couple of months ago. Haven’t seen anything new since then but I would imagine those numbers will hit terminal velocity if the pilot group thinks the process is going to drag on for a year.

The union is acting like this takes a long time. Maybe normally but that’s ridiculous under the circumstances. Management knows exactly what the status quo is right now. They could counter with something reasonable this week and we could vote within a month if that’s what they want.

We’ll see how motivated they are to make a deal. They’ve got a lot more accurate information than us average line pilots about the attrition, recruitment and training numbers and they’re probably also very aware that there are a ton of pilots who already have training dates and haven’t put in their two weeks’. Not to mention the number of pilots waiting on training dates who are probably already at another airline already. If that’s not motivation to come to the table with something serious I don’t know what is.