Originally Posted by
DirectLawOnly
The TA scope provisions are much, much more valuable (specifically the change in control provisions). The block hour guarantee contained in s-UAL 1-F1 which is stated at 1.68MM block hours but has been reduced by one of the LOA's to the CBA to think around 1.3MM. I don't have access to the document at the moment but the 1.68 number is aprox. 20% below where we are today so there is a real potential risk to down sizing s-UAL after March 2013. A block hour guarantee is only useful in certain situations (like this one for instance) and really does nothing in a situation where the company is severely retrenching. What are you going to do, force them to fly empty airplanes? How does that help us as pilots chained to the deck of United Airlines?
According to Form 41 data, in 2009 UAL flew 1.51MM block hours. That is only a 16% difference. Any pilot furloughed would go over to sCAL, maintaining his sUAL pay and would receive 4.5mos furlough pay. The furlough pay is more than we are receiving in retro/lump sum/signing bonus.
Do you mean these TA change in control provisions? Like so many sections in the contract, Successorship affords the company an end run around so many clauses.
1-D-4-a-(6) however, that nothing
herein shall be construed to prevent fleet reductions which the Company can
demonstrate are attributable to the retirement of existing aircraft in the normal course
of business, to casualty loss or to economic reasons not related to the Air Carrier
Transaction.
1-D-4-a-(7) The Company shall be excused from compliance
with such minimum Scheduled aircraft block hours for the period of time that either a
Circumstance Beyond the Company’s Control or the retirement of aircraft in the normal
course of business as scheduled before the agreement that led to the Air Carrier
Transaction causes the Company to reduce or cancel service, or a governmental agency
requirement causes the Company to reduce or cancel service as a condition of approval
of the Air Carrier Transaction, and that the listed event is the cause of such noncompliance