Originally Posted by What
After PSA the only airline they could intimidate is AWAC as they operate for US only and their contract IIRC is up in 2 years. Those guys will soon start to see pressure as they only have 50 seater and 2 years on their contract left. But AWAC will see the pressure wether PSA votes yes or no, but if it's a yes vote the pressure will be intensified for AWAC and others.
I don't see AWAC accepting any more concessions than the decade-old concessionary agreement they are already working under.
Here's an easy fix: if this passes and you didn't vote for it, quit. Then you don't have to worry about it.
EVERYBODY will have to "worry about it", regardless of working for PSA or not. Each new rock-bottom CBA becomes the objective, the cost benchmark, for each new regional lift agreement.
When you think about it, Delta came full-circle on wholly-owned regionals. They had Comair which obtained industry-leading compensation after an 89 day strike, then a few years later learned you can boss around your wholly owned pilot groups and use the (ever-looming) threat of shutdown to fool them into accepting industry-lagging contracts.
And after you get an industry-lagging contract from your wholly owned carrier, do whatever you want with them (see again, Comair) while using their CBA to beat up every contract carrier...further lowering the regional compensation bar.
Pattern bargaining cuts both ways, and the last decade the pattern has been largely downward rather than the other way...