Originally Posted by
zoooropa
Still talking about a strike, amazing. You guys just don't get it. There will never be an IBT 357 Strike at RAH. Never.
How long has Omni been in mediation? Two years, and that was after two years of direct negotiations. You guys haven't TA's ONE section.
Do you have any idea what RAH will look like by the time you will have any remote chance of being released (2013? 2014?)?
Will RAH even need the Republic certificate after he moves the 190's to the Frontier certificate? How long with the Chautauqua certificate remain in existance? Two large 50 seat CPA's expire between now and 2014.
What if RAH FFD is "restructured" into a EMB 175-170 certificate called Shuttle America? What if Bedford sells the FFD instead of selling the Brand?
A lot can happen in two years, just look at Midwest and Frontier.
As been stated ad naseum we have had 2 different IBT Locals working on the CBA since it became amendable. We pretty much can cancel anything the 747 worked on at this point. When 357 was created (about 2 years ago) we had the SLI to work on right away...which meant amalgamation...which changed the game on a new CBA. When the game plan came up to get 4 sections of the CBA worked on and leave the rest, 357 worked on that. the rest of the secions being adjusted via amalgamation and speeding up the process of a new CBA. now we have a Sr. Mediator assigned and we can only hope she has a good hustle on getting things TA'd. Zoo, you already know this stuff so it isn't like they have been sitting around since 2007. RAH will still need the YX certificate as it had been running along w/o 190s for about 4 years or so. they still have business with US and still have no scope on a/c size like S5 and RP do. Selling FFD would be lame as the guranteed profits are a pretty good deal for a few more years. perhaps by then there will be more RFPs for flying as scope errodes...sadly. Here we have one list with e135-a320 covered and that is a first step to getting a hold of that errosion. Obviously we can't predict the future so who knows where RAH will be as a company in a few months or years.