Originally Posted by
scambo1
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I totally agree that there was a black hole of info ref the CDOs...Why?
That's what I want to know and I think is the crux of the concern.
It really doesn't paint a rosy picture of the MEC's "direction" since, theoretically, they work for the pilots.
If there was some proposal internally, to attempt to mitigate the 30 hour layovers, I can understand some spitballin' and groupthink, but is it really the MEC's duty to de-credit trips...The best way to do that is through rigs.
I'd put all my money down that they were proposed to solve the 30 hour layover issue. Reading between the lines, the cost difference of the LOA was 40 million with, and 38 million without... so the SDPs were actually projected to pay us more overall and cost the company a bit more.
They really should have tried to get a better profile of the pilot group before throwing those things into the contract. I'd like to know who the MEC person was that has fond memories of "illegals" that planted that in the NC's head to pursue. I'd love to see how many emails and calls were made that made enough impact to send it back to process.
It wasn't pretty, but the final product did turn out good.