Originally Posted by
Scoop
You are correct DOH was not their opener . NW wanted better than DOH to compensate for upcoming retirements. Which I think would be cool if we also counted airframe retirements. Oh wait, we would be one happy family when it came to parking aircraft but when it came to retirements we had to protect the "NW retirements." Sound fair to you?
Scoop
So you are still avoiding the main question. If both parties couldn't agree, why was arbitration a deal breaker initially, but then later it was ok.... after leaving your alpa brothers behind?