Originally Posted by
TheManager
I'll take an exception to this. My fellow pilots and I want some things that will cost the company $.
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In order to have a truly industry leading contract that even gets close to getting our '96 wages back (adjusted for inflation) instead of C2k restoration, it is not going to be one of those "zero cost contracts" that management parrots to Wall Street. It's going to have an impact on their profitability.
Is that wrong?
Hit the nail on the head.
Our bagtags and lanyards ought to say "
C2016: Industry-Leading EVERYTHING!" and we ought to start wearing them now. Time to start shaping the battlefield.
That should be our (and DALPA's) goal...not three years from signing, or in a couple of cherry-picked areas using the company's/DALPA's jointly formulated fuzzy math.
RA and management want to be an "industry leading airline" without conceding an "industry leading" contract. It's their job to try to get away with it. So it's up to us to say, "you want to be an industry leading airline. Then show us an industry-leading contract". It's up to us to convey that message to DALPA. And we've got to be prepared to use every (legal) resource at our disposal to make it happen.
Of course shiznit, sailingfun, slowplay, acl65, and a host of others will tell us that's impossible, and once again attempt to lower our expectations heading into the contract.
But I'm optimistic that we won't buy DALPA's expenditure-reducing and responsibility-shirking methods again this time; at least not 62% of us.