No flaming from me...just the facts.

Like Fred said, separate ops until the joint contract is final. With the East capturing the attritition from retirements and the little expanded flying that has come their way there isn't much incentive for the Angry F/O Club to do anything about negotiating in earnest. Judge Wake may have something to say about the obligations of USAPA to negotiate for both sides but it will take a while for it to sink in to the East that they are losing over $25000 per year due to their LOA 93 lower payscale along with workrules that are commuter airline equivalent.

The East had counted on LOA 93 wages snapping back this January - that did not happen because they had never put in that language in LOA 93. They thought Seeham (their attorneys) would be able to overturn the Nicolau award and redo the seniority list - that did not happen either. Who knows when they will be ready to get this over with? I'm not holding my breath. I do know that we are in deep danger of being left out altogether because the rest of the industry rightly sees US Airways East as a cancer to their labor groups.