Originally Posted by
chuck416
As was stated earlier in this thread…I, too, have read S.D.'s letter. Multiple times. The logic seems to take a few twists and turns, and at the end, I'm still not real sure what he said. One thought seems to come through pretty clear. The company '...is going to do what we have to do in order to cover this new FAR…' Only problem is, this FAR is not new. Our industry has known for a couple of years that this was in the pike, and now, 3 weeks before implementation, there is a problem with our PWA? A somewhat crude analogy comes to mind. "Stop ****ing down my back while trying to convince me it's raining." It'll be interesting to see how our union handles this. Hoping for a "win" for our team this time.
So the consensus is that the company knew they had a problem and purposely waited till the last minute to grab yet another concession from the pilot group? If I'm comprehending this properly, we're essentially talking about getting rid of long call?
Imo the company is too smart to have not seen this coming. This is just another opportunity for the company to lower their cost at our expense.
If ALPA gives this one away it will be one more step towards the door for them. They just can't seemingly help themselves when comes to giving the company what they want. Hope I'm wrong, but I'll be shocked if ALPA doesn't cave on this.