Originally Posted by
HawkerJet
Depending on how the arbitrator gets paid, having it drag out may be to his advantage financially. If it continues to drag out the RAH pilot group is status qou and Frontier guys stay put.
Midwest pilots all furloughed, advantage RAH pilots, Lynx shutting down, advantage RAH pilots.
And how is this an advantage for RAH? I agree this is a hugh disadvantage for both Midwest and Lynx, but I see the biggest advantage is for Frontier. They benefit by preventing intergration over the short haul. Eventually some F9 pilots will be below RAH pilots, just as some RAH will be below F9. Not to mention the MW and Lynx will be intergrated throughout the list.
This delay only hurts RAH because contract talks will not resume until the SLI is complete. A much overdue CBA is needed. The majority of the planes that RAH operates were not even on property when the last contract was written.
It is not the RAH group who is dragging out the process. One of the other three groups are delaying by having very long cross exams.
In my opinion the SLI needs to be completed, followed by a vote to decide what union will represent, then the group as a whole can go to contract talks. A contract written now will be worthless as many restrictions (fences etc...) will be determined by the arbitrator. Write the contract with those included.