Originally Posted by Jack Bauer

Listen, RA is a smart guy. He sees the on time numbers getting better, good write ups in Fortune, etc and the brand getting good recognition. The ability to get your employees on board where others are failing shows good leadership.

Let him/management know that things could get ugly (no more constructive engagement, letter writing, smooth/on time operations) if he doesn't step up and spend a few more dollars to do this right. The pilots are due. Its time. No more games.

I believe RA wants to keep the happy MOJO flowing forward and in fact it will be one of the keys to success. If he loses the pilots along the way the whole operation can jump the tracks. A lot of pilots I have flow with the past several years have worked hard to do all they could to be on time and make the customers happy with the idea there is a payout coming. If that doesn't happen everybody stops caring.

The problem is, the guys on the NC/ALPA have potentially gotten so cozy with management and caught up in the whole "we are setting history getting a deal done so fast" that they may not be willing to say "Hey this is an insult. You are about to have over 10,000 pi$$ed off pilots that can have a very negative effect on the bottom line and the goodwill created up until this point....you can still make billions of dollars even if you pay your pilots a wage that will keep them content along with work rules/scope they can live with.