Originally Posted by
WmuGrad07
You guys do know this is a management troll spilling parts of the deal that they want to see happen. They're trying to find out what it will take to get people to say "Yes" and how low the moral is.
This industry is falling apart because a few people at smaller companies caved to concessions during record profits. Express Jet, Republic, and Envoy have a little more say in things when we've got a large percentage of the regional pilots. Try not to sound all excited they're coming back to the table. They're coming back to the table because they don't have the option of going elsewhere. They've tried all avenues. We would already be COMAIR II if it was that easy. Please keep your, "I'll take the worst deal at this point" comments to yourself.
If Envoy ALPA is even so much as entertaining any arguments from Glass, etc. about what 5% might say on internet forums they're already beat. If they are smart, among the first caveats to negotiations would be no mention of internet chatter, nor consideration of such. A fair deal is either fair or it isn't. Everything else is meaningless.
Envoy ALPA needs to play THEIR game, not Glass's game.
The regional pilots now SHOULD (and really DO) have the most leverage that they've EVER had in their future, but they've been hoodwinked into thinking the opposite by short-term chess moves. It's falling apart because people are caving and why is meaningless. But, to be fair, the majority of regional pilots are young kids less than 30-35 and relatively short tenures in the industry and so......well, are really babes in the woods. It's no surprise these mature pros at all the union-busting tactics are manhandling them with relative ease. I can assure you Glass won't have such a cakewalk at AA.