gutshotdraw
ZERT Wilson CQB User
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You may be right about the arbitrators, but I don't think it's at all a foregone conclusion that the SLI integration goes to arbitration. USAPA and APA both have good reasons to try to keep it out of arbitration, so they may very well come to a negotiated agreement. If the arbitrators use the methodology from the NIC, it screws both East pilots and certain AA pilots. Then West sues for DFR and we get to see how that goes... a few years down the road.
I assume you mean that if USAPA/APA negotiate an agreement that disregards Nic that West will sue for DFR? Because that is exactly correct. And I think they would win. Which is why I'm not sure APA will be quick to negotiate an SLI with USAPA and expose themselves to that much legal liability.
Besides which, USAPA has proven they can't do ANYTHING but throw a tantrum, take their ball and go home so I don't think negotiations with APA would get very far.
What's that spell? A R B I T R A T I O N