Originally Posted by
caddis
Not sure which rep he was talking about but the MSP LEC rep has said this publicly multiple times. The latest event was during the week they spent in the MSP check in area. In fact he stated asking for more then 10% initially and 20% over the life of the contract will put the company back in bankruptcy.
PG there is a reason that more pilots are buying donuts these days.
Just "asking" would put the Company into bankruptcy
My concern remains that they'll relapse to their old addiction of selling scope for pay. There are a lot of little data points pointing to the outsourcing of 100 seat flying somewhere. For instance, this report from the Denver Business Journal which quotes the President of Republic Airlines Holdings stating that Frontier's Airbus aircraft will be shifted into fee for departure operations.
-- Roughly $30 million in savings achieved by shifting 76-seat planes from Frontier's fleet to the fleets that Republic operates under different names for larger carriers, where the smaller planes can be more profitable. The airline also will shift some of its 100-plus-seat Airbus aircraft to those fixed-fee agreements during the slower winter season, Bedford said.
CEO Bedford: Frontier Airlines well on its way to cost-cutting goal - Denver Business Journal
This press report, quoting an airline CEO correlates exactly with the rumor which started the negotiating committee food fight on this board. Frankly, I thought the rumor was too incredible to post (incredible, as in ridiculous). But this article from a news source experienced with the details of Frontier's plight comes right out and prints it.
TIN FOIL HAT WARNING ... HIGHLY SPECULATIVE RUMOR REPORTING FOLLOWS
The rest of the rumor is ... that in exchange for Frontier's Airbus fleet (flying, whatever) we'll agree to give Bedford or some other operator permission to operate the E190 off property and that we'd get a raise, or alternatively, we'd have some sort of merger with a regional and Delta pilots would perform the flying. The whole thing did not make a lot of sense. But, when you cook off the fat from he Eagle announcement, a pattern just like Moak's scope strategy starts to emerge. So maybe it is true, or parts of it anyway. Who knows?
We have a couple of open scope items in the form of Delta Private Jets and the Republic Single Carrier issue. So someone might cut a deal and present it as a memorandum of understanding which even surprises our Reps.