Originally Posted by BlueSkies

100% this. After working at multiple airlines with contentious labor relations and seeing labor lose again and again in court/arbitration on what seemed like 'slam-dunk' cases I am still surprised by how often labor loses. Maybe we are just delusional about how rock solid our arguements are? Or maybe arbitrators know their work will quickly dry up if they don't side with businesses 90% of the time.

I still think we should have pressed on with this, even if the outcome had been worse. What kind of message does this send the Co.? Create a staffing problem, and then knowingly violate the PWA, admit you violated the PWA, continue to violate the PWA to try and solve the problem and then just get the pilots to fix it for you?

All this seems like is a big green light to find some new area of the PWA to violate.