Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Of course the prior contract allowed a greater number of CR9's then the current contract and with aircraft deliveries coming it would have been very simple to pump and dump to reach those numbers. Yes they would have had to reduce the CR7's some to accomplish that but they could have had more of the 9's everyone states are such great aircraft.
Keep one thing in mind. The people involved in the contract working for us modeled every possible option the company had with regard to long term fleet plans. They had airline experts to assist in that not keyboard cowboys. The company had many different options. The current plan was simply one choice among many. Several of the other plans would have been ugly for us but legal unfder the existing contract.
As line pilots, our ability to make gains will depend entirely on our ability to read this kind of absolute BS, half-truths and scare tactics and see it for what it is. This is the way management used to speak to us. Now it's the way our union leaders speak to us. Control opinion through scare tactics and propaganda. So far, we've shown them it works. I truly hope we soon show them that we only deal with the truth...and vote out the rest.
Carl