Originally Posted by
tsquare
How do you figure? The 717s are coming... well SOME of them anyway. As soon as they get to 767 airframes, the games can begin. They WILL switch those 70s to 76s. Then.. they can retire older mainline airframes with zero penalties. Denny is absolutely right about that. I have no clue what you are referring to when you mention the company is in no position to do that..
Oh, and all those 50s will STILL be with us. Just no 70s. I am quite sure management can live with that.
How will they get rid of the 70's? Are they not under lease? They cannot figure out how to get rid of the 50's on their own, but the 70's will be gone if we don't cooperate? I am sure the company has a plan B if we turn down this TA. Too bad our union does not. Our union's plan A is ignore the survey results, get a TA done at all costs by giving concessions, then strongly recommend TA to our pilot group with the hope that we are too trusting and naive to vote it down. Time will tell is our union is right.