Originally Posted by
gzsg
American is the new main competitor.
RA bumped the FA pay just in time to force Parker to beat it for his FAs.
The American pilots are days away from a TA with our rates plus 5%. Would RA bump our rates 14% now just to make Parker match plus 5% for his pilots?
There is no avoiding our increases. Pay us now or pay us later.
Just curious gzsg, where did you glean this AA= DAL+5% bit of info from? If true it can only help us! Oh, and TSquare, some Forumers are making wild estimates (very wild IMO) about the manning saved by banding. What kinda manning savings do you suppose LBP would entail? Either way a lot of training churn is saved. The jobs vacated by retirements would of course have to be filled... absent the airline shrinking. Using my incredible psychic powers I'm gonna predict LBP isn't gonna happen but banding is likely.