Originally Posted by 757HI

Keep in mind Parker and cronies are very good at getting pilots whipped up over something they have no intention of really getting, that is an emotional trigger for us...

.....and screwing pilots over while they are focused on the hocus-pocus.

#1 Work Rules/Scheduling!
Health Insurance
Retirement
Pay

Note, pay is last. A lot more quality of life and total compensation in a package can come from not spending butt-wads of political capital on a fancy-pants pay rate.

#1 for me are work rules and scheduling. FAR117 totally hosed pilots over, so we have to get those old FAR protections back, and rigs, and scheduling flexibility.
None of us are getting any younger, and I for one don't want to give up being there for my son and wife while getting a crummy schedule that I can't get days off to go to a baseball game.

We already have the scope, and I trust the APA when they say scope relief is a non-starter.

So, on with item #1 above!

I'm telling ya legacy AA guys now, Parker and cronies want TOTAL control over your lives while at work, and off of work. If they had their way, 100% of all pilots would be at the airport, in uniform, with an earpiece so they can deploy you at will.

We MUST get control over our schedules now before it's too late with these people.

As a perspective, Parker and crew have gotten used to scheduling being above the chief pilots office in our chain of command, even though scheduling is not on our org chart!