You heard it here first.

The readers digest condensed timeline:

Today - Spring 2010: nothing happens. Union infighting continues.

Spring: Management friendly pilots get voted in to power at APA.

Spring-Summer: Concessionaires whittle contractual demands down to 10 items and a 10% pay raise demand, citing the "fragile state" of the airline.

September : TA is reached. Final product is basically a reshuffling of our current bankruptcy style contract, a 5% raise, PBS, and "loosening of scope language" allowing 70-90 seat E-jets to Eagle. Vote passes by 69%.

Day after TA passes: AMR sends WARN letters to 2000 pilots.

30 days after WARN letters are sent out: Massive displacement announcement.

60 days after WARN letters sent out: AMR furloughs the first 200 pilots of the 2000 that will hit the street.

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The future has never looked brighter.