What are the airlines to be used in the longevity comparison? Skywest, Republic, Pinnacle, etc. Eagle has been hiring considerably more pilots recently, and if senior CAs start going to AA then the longevity disparity should shrink quite a bit.
Also if Eagle is among the highest-paid in terms of payscale then it's not reasonable to assume we can negotiate a pay raise when the contract expires anyway. We may argue for a raise, and management will use our competitors to show we are overpaid and then we will settle in between.
I am not for or against the TA at this point until all the merits are evaluated against what we can get otherwise. It's easy for someone to get on here and pontificate to us all the negatives of this TA based on some of the language, but practically-speaking what is in our overall best interest?
From what I've read if your TA, trying fir a raise in 2013 in section six isn't even the issue. The issue is, under thus TA in 2014 your longevity gets moved down/lowered to be matched/benchmarked against other comparable companies.
So, you can expect pay cuts when your longevity level is reduced.