Ok. I read it the other way because it seemed like the context of the post was compromise, which as applied to the West means come off the Nic. If there was a way to avert this mess, then I'd be all for it. The problem is that the founders of USAPA rigged our situation so seniority would become an all-or-nothing proposition. I don't think they had the foresight to see the long term, negative effects on the pilot group as a whole and even if they did, they wouldn't have cared. Rather, they saw it as nothing more than a necessary step to achieving the DOH cram-down. USAPA was only created for the purpose of benefitting one particular subgroup of Airways pilots at the expense of the West, East captains and 3rd listers. Nobody has been more dishonest in all of this than the founders of USAPA. They created a lynch-mob mentality that simply had no legal grounding. Hence, failure has been the result and frustration continued to creep. Nothing was working as was promised and the outlet was the illegal safety slow-down. Ironically, the permanent injunction is another layer of cement sealing DOH's fate every bit as much as Addington. If the company had little incentive to expose themselves to the risk of a hybrid DFR after Addington, they have absolutely no reason to align with DOH now given that LOA93 is written in stone, the 3% raise is dead (and should have been a victory for the East), and of course, a permanent injunction. Game, set, match. We either get a contract now or it'll be several more years if there is another merger. The Nicolau will be the list going forward, merger or no merger. That's the reality.
