Originally Posted by
johnso29
alfa,
What are your thoughts on these items?
Is a potential move from Narita to Haneda addressed in this contract? Does it protect pilot jobs?
If JAL leaves from One World (AMR) and joins SkyTeam (Delta), what happens to our south (5th freedom) flying?
How many top level jobs could we lose? Where do those pilots displace too? Are we not overstaffed now? What happens if the 250-300 pilots expected to retire do not do so?
Are you ok with the potential for the company to access your medical records in order to get 100% sick paid?
ALV plus 15 for reserves—How much efficiency does this gain mean to staffing? Does this lead to less green slip opportunities? Does quality of life matter?
Does 4%, 8.5%, 3% and 3% for 42 months keep up with inflation? Does this meet your survey expectations?
Do 88 717s really mean 88 aircraft worth of growth? What happens to older MD-88s, A320s, and 757s? Again, higher paying aircraft retiring and lower paying aircraft being acquired.
Are you ok with the numerical increase in more two-class 76 regional aircraft?
The Haneda/Narita question is mind boggling. Does someone think we have a way to guarantee where Delta flies? The Haneda issue will be figured out in international negotiations between the US government and the Japanese government. How could our contract possible bind those parties to some outcome? What is our Narita/Haneda protection today?
If JAL joins Skyteam then we will have a stronger position in Japan and in Haneda. If Delta wanted to form a JV with JAL we now have contractual provisions to guarantee Delta pilots a share of the JV. No such protection exists today.
What happens under the current contract if Delta displaces from the top positions? When has that ever not been true in this industry for at least 30 years. Does anyone think that a large number of pilots will apply for this early out? What early out program do we have under the current contract?
Delta has the right to request your medical records every time you are sick under the current contract. The TA has new restrictions. How is this worse?
I don't know how many times this issue has been hammered into the ground. Someone isn't paying attention.
Inflation has averaged around 2-3% for the last few years. So yes it beats inflation. I expected to be a major league center fielder when I was 10. Sometimes expectations are not met. Does a no vote guarantee that your expectations will be met in the future?
Somehow, the 737-900's are being ignored. What protections do we have under the current flying to guarantee mainline share of flying? What do we have under the TA? Are the TA guarantees better than we have today?
This is about the only valid point here. This is a trade. We get stronger Scope protections in exchange for this concession. Since they could go to 255 76 seaters eventually, the real concession was for 70 70 seat aircraft that would have to be disposed to increase 76 seaters.
The central problem in all of these questions is not does this TA protect me from every possibility that exists in the industry, but does the TA provide better protections than we have now? In almost every case the answer is that the TA provides better protections. The next question is can we find a deal in the near future.
I don't know where these questions came from but it seems to me that someone is fear mongering over issues that we will never have control over. If someone is scared over this issue then someone should explain to them that in almost every case this TA improves protections for Delta pilots. And they oppose that why?