Well at AA, that was exactly what AMR liked as they were more then happy to stall the process out till whenever. Now, it seems they are becoming more agressive and receptive with the new APA leadership and supposedly have made more progress in the last 4 months, then the previous 4 years. I think, it's no longer in AMR's best interest to stall and they would like labor stability and so it seems like their finally may be some hope of hammering out something acceptable to both sides. The final issues of pay and scope will be the big dogfight with scheduling/reserve and pension seemingly progressing.

If the whole process stalls out, it would seem to only increase the chances of BK and palatable deals with all the mainline labor and an avoidance of BK would seem preferable to a return back to the past and a high likelyhood of BK.

We'll have to watch the summer go by to get a better handle pilot contract-wise on where things are going and if this real or another tapdance.