Originally Posted by coldpilot

Basically they have to decide what is going to define "hardship." What I gathered from the ALPA e-mail is that the intent of Letter 3 was that when a pilot gets a class date at AA they will be required to flow unless they can demonstrate "hardship."

The meeting this weekend is to ratify one of two resolutions. One resolution leaves the definition in the hands of an arbitrator. The other says that our current contractual definition of hardship should be applied to any Letter 3 hardship applications.

In the end it gives the senior guys a way out because they don't want to flow to AA since since it's a pay cut and lower QOL. They have been sitting in the left seat at Eagle for many years now and that allowed AA flowbacks on Eagle property and subsequent stagnation and the 10 year upgrade. Once again the old guys have their cake and they get to eat it too.