Originally Posted by The Chow

I'm not sure how I'm going to vote until I see the details but here are a couple of my thoughts.

PBS: might work out in some ways. Being relatively junior in my base I would love to be able to bid days off and have a schedule built around that. Instead I have to try to bid a crappy line ( reserve or hard line ) try to trip trade and see "denied due to staffing".

Sick & Vacation in one bucket: We're giving up a week of vacation but we can now use the sick time we accrue. Seems like a wash as the company will smack your balls if you try using all your sick time anyways.

Home Reserve: with a positive spaced ticket this could really work out for us commuters. It would be nice to give up the crash pad. Again I need to see the language.

Captains are taking 2.5% pay cut. Well I'm in the what about me generation and I doubt I'll ever be a captain at AE.

Saabs, CRJ's and E175's oh my....could care less. We had E175 pay rates at Comair and the airplane was never flown by a Comair pilot. There is no doubt that Skywest and Republic are going to be given planes and routes. This particular item is in the hands of mainline.

Flow and Furlough....Pffft. You can put that next to the Charmin. Furlough protection has never worked and AA still hasn't had a use for the 200+ guys now at Eagle.

So for me it all comes down to the language.

Tell me where I'm wrong.

TC