Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Here you go.(1) Pinnacle secured "committed" aircraft from the limited number available for DCI carriers.
(2) They did this through the use of pay cuts
(3) To remain competitive it is likely that the other DCI carriers will be forced into concessionary bargaining.
BS to all 3 counts Bar!!
(1) Good for 9E for getting the next batch of CRJ 900's. After the crap sandwich that just got shoved down their throats thats at least a little bit of a consolation prize for them. If ASA pilots are upset that the next lot of 900's is going to 9E instead of them then that is nothing more than sour grapes on their part.
(2) If you think that the 9E pilots agreed to pay cuts in order to get 900's and a bridge agreement than you have no clue what you are talking about. The pay cuts were a result of their company being in bankruptch.
(3) The 9E contract that was just signed is still an industry average contract. Not saying it's the best but it isn't the worst in the DCI game. There are more guilty airlines in the race to the bottom claim you make so go grip at them and not 9E.
Bar, it's easy for you to say from the outside looking in that the 9E pilot group should have fallen on their swords and taken one for the good of the DCI rat race. I'm not sure how long you have been at Delta but if you have been around a while you took much much larger paycuts yourself and kissed your pension goodbye so it's pretty hypocritical of yourself make such claims about TW screwing over ASA and the "DCI rat race to the bottom"