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Old 06-02-2012 | 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by APCLurker
Come on. Never say never. Force manure will be used once again and the contract will be meaningless. Did you learn nothing from your furlough? Not to mention that management always seems to "find a way" and the response from alpa is usually "we didn't envision that" or "we didn't think they would do it" or my favorite "but we may have lost." Which, by the way, looks like we gave them that one anyway in this TA.

Not only can it possibly happen again but we will have already given them even more 76 seaters via this TA.

And please don't fall for the "carrot" of 717's. If it is in management's best interests to get them, they will get them with or without the TA. Have pilots really not learned from decades of history?

Question: is it written in the ta that 717's will be arriving if the TA passes? I truly don't know. But if it isn't, then all we have are "promises." Promises of an agreement "in nature" or however they phrased the press release.

Management's desire to get rid of 50 seaters is leverage.

I also just cannot understand the willingness to make it more profitable for management to outsource our jobs.
The 717 order is not specifically in the contract, but it does say that they can't get the extra 76 seaters without first buying 717's or 319's that aren't on the property at date of signing.