Originally Posted by
buddies8
management knows that, they are banking on FEAR to overcome the pay issue and for a vote in favor of management proposal in the TA of concessions for a lot of maybes.
matter a fact the fleet commitment and the flow commitment, in order to honor one (with a pilot shortage) they would have to violate the other commitment. So management already knows which they are going to violate, the one that costs the least, and that would be the flow will be stalled to a crippling crawl to maintain the staffing for the 170 aircraft.
Maybe yes maybe no. Our current eight year contract doesn't have any provisions against such a problem.
If we are able to secure language such as "it will reduce block hours to honor the flow" we can always take it to arbitration in case that they decide to violate the provisions on our TA. And because the language is very explicit then the arbitaror would side with the union in very short time.
As a matter of fact if they can't staff their airplanes due to lack of crews and the flow isn't attracting new hires then the only place you can correct is pay and benefits. The company thinks the flow will work, we don't think it would be such a good tool for hiring but either way we will have the leverage we need to snapback and improve anything we are losing with the TA.
5c per diem and 5% on insurance contributions in three years.
Most FOs are grandfathered and most captains will continue to go to the top of the scale and by then the will flow. Having the increase to 100% of the first 30 in an AA class was a major improvement.