Originally Posted by
BSOuthisplace
What makes you think a JCBA between Envoy and PDT would end up using the PDT LOA jet rates?
IIRC Pinnacoabla's JCBA ended up with much better rates than the bottom feeder Colgan had before the whole thing went bankrupt. Am I wrong in assuming the merged contracts are usually better for the lesser paid pilot group?
I understand by voting in this TA PDT would hurt the negotiations starting point on pay rates but I'm pretty sure we would end up with something better than the PDT LOA jet rates.
I hope you're right, but I find the company's obsession with 12/4 caps at all their wholly-owneds to be quite telling of their intent. To so persistently seek 12/4 at both Eagle and Piedmont only to give it away in a merger just because Eagle said no doesn't make any sense from a corporate standpoint.