You really think it will go as scheduled? When was the last time anything went as scheduled? I fully expect within weeks the first request by one party for more time will be made. After that the NMB has a long history of delaying things and taking their sweet time. Remember these mediators and arbitrators have other real jobs and it seems like oodles of vacation time. You have 5 teams of attorneys who has lives and things happen to their families like deaths, accidents and illness. The federal gov't is involved and we know they can fcku up a 1 cow cattle drive. You can see that the schedule is set up to fail. I would wager the arbitrators ruling will come Oct 2010 at the earliest.

Looks to me as BB is using the delay to his advantage. If for some odd reason the sli goes down as planned it will be announced after all the recalls have happened. Most likely BB is planning the recalls so that there won't need to be more for some time even if it means being a little heavy on pilots. Correct me if I'm wrong but the current contract wouldn't allow a YX or F9 pilot to return even if they are senior on this new list until RAH recalls more pilots. So after the sli is done BB will avoid recalling as long as possible because the people coming back will be the experienced higher paid pilots. The only way around this is if the arbitrator forces the company to bring back pilots to reflect the master seniority list.