Listen up........No rational Eastie is buying the notion that somehow you folk hold the leverage card in any matter ( ie AA sli ) concerning the Nic. We have NOT and will NOT just forget what the 9th put in writing.
Years later, and you guys still don't get it.
The 9th circuit said you can't have a DFR until USAPA actually gets a contract in place with a non-Nicolau seniority list.
The company has essentially pulled an end-around and applied for summary judgement on that score.
Even if Judge Silver does not enshrine Nicolau (she most likely will), the writing is on the wall:
1. A single carrier determination will be made.
2. During the SLI with AA, USAPA will either be forced to use the Nicolau (Judge Silver) or if they try to pass another list will be instantly in court with a ripe DFR that history tells us they will lose.
The most likely scenario is that Judge Silver will enshrine the Nicolau as the list and APA will become the union--perhaps even without a vote. The SLI with the APA list and Nicolau will proceed.
There is absolutely zero chance that US and AA integrate with anything but the Nicolau award as the US list.
What cracks me up is that there are still folks who work for what was US-East who really think that there is a path forward that does not include Nicolau. There ain't, and you guys have pissed away 5+ years with LOA 93 trying to avoid it.
Further, even _if_ a 3-way SLI occurs, it's going to be before a real arbitrator. He is not going to like (and see right thru) the history of what the East pilot group has done, and essentially punish the group for it during the SLI.
Stepping back onto this board after few years, and you still can't fix stupid. This is why I won't fly East metal--no point in placing my life in the hands of the mentally unfit to be dog-catcher, must less fly an airplane.