I've barely been on here for the last year or so. I don't intend to make it a habit. This place is a siloed echo chamber of self-referential and mutually masturbatory thinking that's as bad as anything you point the finger at the GO at for engaging in.

I don't know where you get the idea that I've been "[dodging] the question." I haven't been around enough recently to get bogged down in the cess here.

Having said that, I voted no. I'd vote no again if the vote was today. I don't buy most pilots' idea that because the economy is arguably not as strong today as it was a year ago, that we would have been doomed or that our leverage would have been drastically diminished.

The primary threat to our ability to pose the credible threat of a legal strike is the credible threat of scabs being utilized en masse by the company to break a strike. I don't think we're anywhere near that right now.

Regardless, had SWAPA played the RLA game more adeptly, or even halfway competently, we would have approached a point in mediation where a release was a true threat to management well over a year before we ratified our contract and before the economy had (arguably) softened at all. We should have been able to legally pose an existential threat to the company by no later than 4Q22/1Q23. All this fretting about, "What should SWAPA have done if we had rejected the contract earlier this year?", shouldn't even be the question.

I'm sorry if that annoys or triggers you.