Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
What are you referring to? They all stated that there will be no scope concessions.
It was more along the lines of we have the ability to get what we as a pilot group want. SWA+ is not a bar many are setting. Many know that is too low if you include many of the incentive based compensation programs that have been talked about. On hourly, the reps have not been briefed on the survey, that will occur next week at the MEC meeting in ATL. Expect follow on polling to tighten the data within any demographic that needs more input.
Overall the meeting was well attended, pilots were demanding SCOPE, PAY and WORK RULE changes. The mood was no where near a status quo raise. A few reps asked for input wrt to a position they though we should take, and they got that input yesterday.
I was quite happy to see, in my estimation over 60 pilots there.
That's good to hear, for now. Trust but verify though. And mostly verify. Actually all verify.
And its great that "no scope concessions" is an approved talking point. But that's not going to cut it. No scope concessions means scope status quo. Alaska growing at twice the rate we are shrinking and us giving them twice the pax they give us, DCI flossing and flying over 250 DC-9-10 replacement jets all over the place and us trying to figure out how we will split all our international seat miles with every airline in the world including future start ups that don't even exist yet.
Of course there won't be any scope concessions. That's like being on the verge of D day and our generals saying they won't give away any "more" territory. OK, great, of course that's a given. But is it a priority to get back and do we have a strategy to get it back, or will our brightest days ahead still find us outsourcing half our airline to the lowest bidder? (and how bright will those days sustainably be if we outsource half our airline)?
And SWA+ is more than enough...depending on how big the "+" is.
In any case, trust but verify. We need to keep track of the meet and confers. With DCI and whoever else requires them.