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Wow, there's lots of misconceptions out there. I encourage everyone to read the "process agreement" and "protocol agreement" that were agreed to and available for us to view.
For the SLI... bottom line is this: no TA = no SLI. Per the agreement they won't even begin to negotiate an SLI until 30 days AFTER the TA is signed.
From the sounds of it... per the RGS visit by JR, the company has every interest in combining the airlines ASAP. However, without one contract and one SLI, it makes it very difficult and expensive for them. So, it appears that none of this integration will begin to even happen until a TA is produced at the very least.
I guess we wait and see. A lot can happen in 2+ weeks and yes, the big items are ahead of us. Heck, the majority of the XJ 2004 contract was put together in the 48 hours we had the company shut down, by the balls and still on the payroll.
And most of the big items have already been TA'd once for 9E, I can't imagine it will take much to come to an agreement again close to those original numbers.
The biggest thing I see is a fair distribution of the retro pay for 9E guys.
You get that and some cleaning up of the language (which is what they are doing now), add pay from the 9E TA previously offered, and it's a done deal.