Originally Posted by First Break

I agree with this. Just before our AIP was announced, the head of APA was quoted in a news article saying they were demanding a 10/5/5 deal, and AMR wasn’t playing ball. That 10/5/5 was based on rates that already lagged ours, and would have been a disaster to our eventual outcome of 18/5/5/4. Not to mention their “retro” was for a few percent for like 6 months, and they were doing next to nothing with quality of life, nor were they seeking any improvement to vacation or retirement.

From some very reliable sources, UALPA was not far ahead of what APA was publicly demanding for their own acceptable TUMI 2.0, and they publicly admitted that they had to pull their table position after the DAL deal was announced.

Neither were aiming for a bar even close to where DALPA ended up, and that is an unequivocal fact.

Maybe some of that context is why the MEC narrowly decided to take the deal being offered in RDU, and not leave to chance what market would exist post a potential AIP at UA or APA while DALPA was on ice.

But I hear that lady was pretty scary, nonetheless.