Originally Posted by
Curtain rod
What we are getting is an HKPA bribe bundled with 3 other TA's we knew nothing about, little time to decipher it all, plus all this with a gun to our heads about one deadline that passed without comment and another deadline that interferes significantly and negatively with our voting process, all while discovering mysterious side letters full of gotchas and every day another bomb exposing deception lands in our inboxes.... And to get an RP back into our COS, it must be RATIFIED BY US, which means it must be good enough to ratify. Period.
Rod. Are you suggesting, in all the time the NC was involved with the company, the NC knew nothing substantial about what was being discussed? Or that everything was suggested by the company and the NC went along? The NC never suggested "if you want this then we require that"?
The NC worked hard in the field of play with the company and the result is this TA. Whining about extras we come away with is ludicrous. They are extras we (or a segment of we) benefit from.
Are those benefits bribery to get an element of the pilot group to vote YES? Yes, of course they are. Did the NC work to make those elements beneficial? Of course they did. Could and should the benefit be better? Maybe...