Originally Posted by
Waitingformins
Your misleading the facts a bit, your contract would not even been the same had Eagle MEC not rejected their first offer. So what would you have voted yes to you dont even know what it would have looked like. PSA's best leverage was Eagle MEC turning down AAG.
AAG hasent really honored their bluff until they move the 700's. A draw down would have occurred anyway with Republic's planes coming on.
PSA was offered a 61% increase in their fleet count, I don't think Eagle was ever able to vote on a deal that included a fleet of 350+ frames.
Lastly your not quite out the woodworks yet, AAG can easily wait until your last 900 is on the property and then sell you back 35 ragged out 200 frames with something else, or risk furloughs. Btw the half of the company with the most to loose will be just off year 1 and be a able to vote.
I am most certainly not misleading anything.
We already had a contract. The only thing that was changed was an LOA for 12/4, and the insurance sharing increases as well as the LOA for acft and our current hiring agreement.
AAG has said on numerous occasions that they would be taking the 700s away regardless of the outcome of your vote. So the fact that you are still flying your 700s has nothing to do with their "bluff."
So if you were offered a 61% increase at Eagle you would vote yes to 12/4? I'm not really sure what you are getting at with that statement.
As far as taking the 200s away. Sure they
could, but why? They have dumped an enormous amount of money into hiring and training about 350 guys so far this year, with more to come. So now they'll just furlough all those guys? Cmon. They got what they wanted as their vision of a long term viable feed option with the 12/4 and the 200 leases are so cheap(straight from VPs mouth AFTER our vote) that they would be viable even with a sharp increase in fuel prices. Where is the motivation for AAG to park our 200s? Just to say "HAHA! we tricked you!". I doubt it. Money talks.