Originally Posted by
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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.
We are not days away from a TA - in fact APA just extended negotiations for another 30 days.
Also don't know where you got delta plus 5% from! our proposal was 2015 delta rates. The rumor is delta + ? In exchange of no profit sharing.
As of now the MOU calls for delta and united rates averaged together in 2016 for pay parity, but APA has said they want it now. Don't know how that applies to when Delta gets a new contract.
What will be the demise of APA is if no JCBA is agreed to it goes to arbitration and cannot exceed the cost structure of the MOU. Basically it would be slightly below average of current delta and united contracts for the next 4 years.