The usual ALPA cheerleaders on this board the last few days. Planning the US Airways funeral, complete with picking out the flowers and obituary statements. The situation that US Airways pilots are involved in is due to ALPA’s attempt to help United Airlines pilots with the impending merger with US Airways a few years back.

The Arbitrator is now absent from the scene. (It would be helpful if CVG767, ALPA expert for communications for Delta, updates us on the Mr Nicolau’s, current activities) The Pilot “neutrals” one from United, who worked closely with Paul Rice, who happens to be a United Pilot, helped shaped the Nicolau award. The other “neutral” was from Continental Airlines who happens to be a good friend of John Prater, President of the Airline Pilots Association.

Arbitrator Bloch who handled the Delta, Northwest pilots merger, also was the arbitrator of the US Airways and America West dispatchers. His finding were 180 degree’s from the pilots arbitrator.

Interesting reading.

http://jamhoff.com/PDFs/ArbitratorDecisionAward.pdf