Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Other side of the coin ... so if we do nothing other than say "no" ... what's to keep Delta from moving the operation to HND as they can can codesharing out of HND?
Answer nothing.
I don't think you meant to infer this, but Delta has no say whatsoever in moving its operation to HND. Now if you're saying that by voting no, we run the risk of Delta moving all our flying to some code share partner at HND, they could do that now with or without our vote.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
I think my record as a scope hawk is pretty well established here.
Actually, it's not Bar. You've done nothing recently but defend ALPA/DALPA outsourcing of our jobs. You used to be a scope hawk, not anymore.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
That being noted, it is my opinion our MEC made the right decision with the decision they faced.
See above.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
With overflight + the Olympics in 2020, my guess is that we will be fine on block hours.
You'll understand if I'm not comforted by your guess about future block hours. I would much rather have the restriction on code share based on operating 316 slots per week out of NRT.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
The 15% will act as a check valve that helps us to ratchet up our flying and failing that, we have some scope redundancy ... a floor.
It will do no such thing because there's no snap-back feature that we effectively had with the old language. Now it's a percentage that will be negotiated away by our bargaining agent...just like the 316 slot requirement was negotiated away.
Carl