US Airways MEC update for Thursday, November 21:
The MEC convened its special meeting today in Herndon and received a report from the Negotiating Committee. The Committee reported that management terminated additional small jet relief negotiations with ALPA this afternoon after informing the Committee that management’s latest counterproposal was their final offer and asked that ALPA not present a counterproposal to it.
The Committee reported that ALPA’s small jet proposal to the Company gave management everything that they had requested, except the ability to put 70-seat small jets at US Airways’ current wholly-owned carriers. During negotiations, management refused to address most of the MEC’s small jet relief issues.