Originally Posted by
Xray678
What if a second TA is not better? Or it takes a year to get another 3% in pay? Was it worth it?
The large raises some guys expected were never going to happen. This TA is below what I expected, but not so much below to take a chance on voting it down.
While the initial raise is less than it should be, that's not even my major malfunction with it. Net work rule concessions (300 less pilots by our own admission) another large amount of DC-9-10 replacement jets at the labor busters (lost leverage that we will be saddled with in C2016 by the way as we try and keep our rates up on our new used orphaned "hundred seater" 717) and the preservation of an insane and insunting vacation day rate just to name a few.
We are funding the company's DCI fleet plan, we are funding our work rules with our work rules, we are funding our "raise" with some profit sharing and we are funding the retirement bubble by paying for an early out that helps the company big time.
I could live with the rates if we got a significant increase in work rule/soft money and started to reduce large RJs. Without being single issue at all, this TA falls short in so many areas and that's OK...send it back and get it right.