Originally Posted by
finis72
Unless I'm mistaken theses are called negotiations not demands. The company is always going to want increased productivity and they bought it with the increased pay for reserves. The company is cranking up hiring in the first quarter of next year to man the 717's and replace the early outs to try and even out the coming mass exodous unless the TA doesn't pass, then unless you're a fly on Richards wall it's all speculation beyond that.
Yes, negotiations. With these kind of productivity increases, "negotiations" would have provided for an offsetting SWAPA style daily guarantee of 6+ per day. Instead we got an almost negligible increase in average daily guarantee and even that has an exception for many red eye trips. And this increase in reserve guarantee is also based on a large increase in productivity for all pilots...not just reserves.
Negotiations would have been great. This was an embarrassing steamrolling.
Carl