Originally Posted by
boog123
Can you point me in the direction where it says when we get the 88 717's, other mainline aircraft won't be parked?
Also, please show me where a MOA can't change the ratio for shrinkage.
Thanks, ready to vote yes if you can show me my guarantees
AIrplanes can certainly be parked. BUt the block hour flying rations have to remain in place. THAT is the key to keeping pilots employed.
For simplicity:
Let's say we had 2 mainline aircraft and there was only 1 RJ. If the contractual requirement was for the mainline airplanes to maintain 2 times the number of hours that the RJ flew, and one of the mainline airplanes was subsequently parked, the remaining one would have to fly twice as many hours to maintain that ratio.
In the TA, that ratio applies to anything below a domestic 767. THAT is killer.. If they park anything up to and including the 767-300, those ratios still apply. The problem here is the same one I have been talking about all along, and that is the fact that management has been buying smaller and smaller gage airplanes, which we feel should pay less than Carl's airplane. THAT is a self inflicted wound. If we had UPS's scale, we would have more guys making as much or more money because size wouldn't matter, yet the block hour rations would remain.