Originally Posted by Bucking Bar
Past practice disputes your confidence in management's compliance, as well as ALPA's enforcement.
Furloughs could have been avoided entirely during the past decade.
I like that our current agreement front end loads the compliance language. The rub is, we do not know who Skywest ordered the MRJ's for, or for that matter what Republic is up to. We used to have the lead time on aircraft orders to estimate compliance by. Now we are caught in a more reactive environment because of the pure momentum (size and velocity) our so called "partners" have.
We really need to stop outsourcing.
I'm hoping that C2K DALPA and Post Merger C2012 DALPA are two different entities. I also don't believe that our management team would knowingly sign an agreement with us only to quickly alter course when things didn't go their way. If you speak of this as the near future then you will instantly see the end of constructive engagement and the true damage a section 1 violation could do to the company.
I agree that outsourcing needs to stop and regardless of what anyone else says, I'm confident we're heading in that direction over the next 10-15 years.
As for SKYW and RJETs momentum, they may be able to order airplanes on paper, but when it comes time to write the check, I'm afraid one or both of them will implode.