Sequence of events last eight months:

1) December 2022- Delta sets new industry standard with AIP
2) March 2023- Delta TA ratified
3) April 2023-Murmurs of progress/imminent AA deal, not nearly as much progress on UA side
4) May 2023- AA reaches AIP
5) Late May-June 2023- Murmurs of progress on UA side
6) July 2023- UA AIP

The point is not that the AA AIP was industry leading, it was industry matching at best. Having an agreement at all at AA did two things: it gave UALPA leverage because United was now the only one without a pilot agreement, and it gave SK an opportunity to show up RI. You really think the timing is a coincidence? There is little doubt in my mind much of the timing of the UA AIP was to mess with the vote of the AA TA and possibly send us down a potential path of mediation. This is something I felt would happen back in we came out with our AIP/TA. All of timing of what I stated above can be validated with a combination of Google searches and looking at UA threads on this site.

Right now, those in upper management at the legacies are playing chess and we are playing checkers. You have to read between the lines.