Originally Posted by
76drvr
That's my concern. I don't believe being parked for years needs to be a foregone conclusion and while I know that "hope" is not a strategy, I do hope that the MEC is working on a strategy to shorten the timeline between openers and a TA that gets us the most the soonest.
That strategy already exists. Open with the SWAPA contract plus huge percentages above. At the end of the process, agree to the SWAPA contract with small percentages above plus increases for higher capacity aircraft. We are as profitable as SWA, and we are only asking for a modest percentage increase above our largest competitor. The company would have no leg to stand on if they tried to get the NMB to park us, thus the NMB would not. But DALPA won't use this strategy. Instead, DALPA lies about what's in the SWAPA contract and hides behind the threat of NMB parking. You have to ask yourself why DALPA is doing this if they are truly aiming for an industry leading contract for us.
Carl