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Old 03-30-2014 | 07:52 AM
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John Carr
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Originally Posted by jkhill0
Thanks. Typical management trying to make shareholders happy at the expense of the most critical asset: people.
Pretty much it.

Legacy pay/work rules at L-LUL/UCH, DAL, etc have come up as of late. Although nowhere near the pre 9/11 levels, it's better then their bankruptcy concessionary contracts.

L-CAL took concessions, as well as L-AA in the first half of the previous decade, while not in BK.

And I'm really not sure how good the new AAG contract is, nor what they get later.

But the idea that the lowest paid pilots need to take concessions while the legacy airlines are making money is simply an asinine concept. One of the myriad of issues is that the contracts between the legacy and the CPA/FFD regional feeders are STILL using the costs that were born out of the terms from the bankruptcy era.

Apples to oranges, but imagine if during the 2008 economic collapse, a guy says he can now only afford to pay his landscaper $80/mo instead of $100 to cut his lawn. The landscaper needs the business, so he sucks hit up. Fast forward, now the guy is making more money than ever before, and NOW wants the landscaper to do it for $70/mo.

Hopefully the RAH guys can stand up and do it too. Because like tsquare said and I mentioned before, even more leverage will fall into the hands of the pilots. More than has been seen in the last 13+ years. Despite the doom and gloom/fear tactics that management tries to pull.
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