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Originally Posted by
tsquare
You are a smart guy that has a great ability to research things.
Reminds me of something I read: To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
Originally Posted by
tsquare
I don't know why on earth you are so hung up on this. The contract was ratified, and is now our CBA. The thing to do going forward is to make it better. I think the minimum BLH floor should be more in the 2.something range. No contract is ever going to be perfect. Even the SWA guys have their issues. What we have to do is the best we can at the time, and improve when we have the opportunity. Unlike the Democrats, we have to stop blaming the other guys and deal with what we have in front of us.
And FWIW, had I heard one solid argument as to how a no vote would have resulted in a better deal, I would have joined you. I never did. Not one single solitary reason other than Hopey Changey.
Originally Posted by
tsquare
Originally Posted by
tsquare
Why don't you turn that into a positive and get involved in the process instead of *****ing on an anonymous webboard?
T, I'll take that to heart. But I want to drive home a point as I see it is that we minimize if not eliminate our greatest replacement threats. I see the greatest threat as large regional jets. It's like playing defense on your own five yard line, I see the greatest threat as a run and will use the back of the endzone and short field to help eliminate the threat of a pass. I saw the size of DCI as a pass and a large jumbo RJs as a run, and would rather have held their run game in check at 255 jets and make them choke on the 50 seater economics.
We didn't do that and now they have more large RJs which are better replacements of a mainline jet than a CRJ-200.
Next time, bigger ratios, put the mainline fleet counts back in, and as a realist the only thing at this point we can do with all these new big RJs is to demand sunsets on the contracts.
and above all else, no more jumbo RJs. That's why I talk about it. as to the rest off the contract outside of staffing changes and so forth, I won't complain. it is what it is and I hope it's a win. I'm not cheering against the contract just railing on section 1.
peace?