Originally Posted by
ATCsaidDoWhat
What did your NC ask for? Lots of rumors running around...putting some facts out might help shut them down. Like it or not, the fact that the NMB parked you guys sure sends a message in itself that something was out of line.
The NC asked for some pretty standard industry things:
-Trip rig
-Duty rig
-Industry standard pay for the # of seats flown
-Better rsv rules
-Cancellation pay
-100% DH pay
-Premium pay
The pay rates (especially for FO's) were a great improvement, but there was no duty rig to help with the frequent 3+ hour sits that are scheduled regularly and the trip rig is a joke considering the lack of a duty rig. Reserve's QOL would go down even more (as if it wasn't bad enough already) and there's no cancellation pay for the first 4 years which is ridiculous. I'm sure the company laughed knowing that this would go to the pilots for a vote hoping the all the FO's would see the increased pay and vote yes purely on that. Hopefully everyone pays attention to the other items and realizes that the whole thing is an insult to the pilot group and it gets voted down unanimously.
Of course, both the IBT and RAH have put out emails stating each side is telling lies about the LBF offer, so knowing the true language of the offer is impossible (the offer might be somewhere the pilots can view it and I just don't know where it is). The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle but either way it's unacceptable.