I gave this one to our MEC head and he said that was not the case. The company did say they wanted a contract done yesterday (obviously this is a 2-sided event). The 9 open sections are economic and are always the difficult ones to get done. At least we are up to the meat of the contract. It's only been 5 years! Keep in mind this tactic has been used repeatedly to scare us from the back of the company. Management can quickly "leak" such a rumor from the management pilots and it hits the line like the plague- before you know it people who are very "plugged in" begin to even think it may be the case. Reference summer 2006- "Last, best, final offer or we lose all the NWA flying without a new service agreement". The union said no, rightfully so because the offer on the table was not good, and the pilots got the saturday fedex package.


That being said, my expectations are up. Politically we are getting into warm labor waters, and management is doing all that it can to hold on. Reference the latest displacements and continued JM's, extensions, memos. All they have in their arsenal is fear and a determination to destroy QOL. We shall see...