Originally Posted by
Whaledriver
The company knew the T/A was going to fail, so gateway was added to get the vote over 50%. It wculd have been something else added, no one knows what that something else was going to be. Obviously, there had been a conversation about gateway during negotiations.
Thanks for the background, Whaledriver...
I cannot believe that ANY airline management is going to just give away hundreds of thousands of dollars (likely a few million when you factor in airline tickets AND hotels) without anything in return for it. Even if the incentive was to get the vote above 50%.
That also tells me how fixated we were on getting the damn Gateway basing system...sorry, I have always believed that it cost us too much for what it gave us. EVERY single airline of any consequence does not have such a plan. EVERY single pilot at a major/legacy/LCC jumpseats to work. My opinion is that we gave up too much to get this program...and guess what, now that we have it, the program continues to drive the discussion. That tells my how we value it...when a pilot group values something that much, it is hard to get rid of it. And not only that, the company can and will use it against us in EVERY Section 6 we sit down for.