Originally Posted by
tsquare
I am not gonna throw myself on the grenade of paying for RJ flying just so Mesabah can move over here and jump right into the left seat of a C series airplane. Sorry. If that is being selfish, then so be it. Why don't you ax him to throw himself on a grenade so that I can retire with something close to what I was promised when I got here 20+ years ago? Why doesn't all this big talk of unity work in that direction?
TSquare,
I am making the case you want to hear. The two points are:
- The Delta MEC has achieved gains by facilitating unity. We have the illustration of the gains made in our JPWA and subsequent post merger negotiations. We can build on that trend.
- Large aircraft are underpaid relative to their productivity. Small jets are over paid relative to their productivity. Simply restoring traditional "pay for productivity" models would skew pay favorably towards the 767 and up crowd (which now includes the 737-900 and 321 replacement aircraft). Even the MD88 gets no where near 3x CRJ200 rates at equal longevity.