Originally Posted by
eaglefly
I understand that mantra (although disagree with it). Fact is, most on the East are older and close to retirement and have lost out BIG over the last decade with gutted pensions and the lowest pay rates in the industry prior to the merge. The senior East USAPA strategy then was to agree to the MOU even though it called for USAPA's dissolution even as early as the JCBA process and then reneg once the ca$h was in their hand. Now, more ca$h is offered and fast !
What a crock of $h!t! I have a lot of years left here. I'll probably get to be a 777 Captain before you get out of the cockpit of that "jungle jet" you forgot how to fly. They retrain you to fly or are you still cleaning the latrine down at APA national?
Considering the age and seniority of most of the East (third listers the exception), scope is meaningless to most of these pilots as is other trivial (in their minds) concessions. Just as their MOU strategy was about guaranteed ca$h and fast, so is the JCBA strategy. Some will fight tooth and nail (pun intended
) as they are terrified it will slip through their hands before they retire. This is an understandable position for those pilots. Conversely, I don't think it's the best position for those more junior on the East who will pay for that or for the relatively junior West who will be around a lot longer, to say nothing of the shafting of AA legacy pilots......at least the majority.
Save if for the "cheap seats" you uneducated commuter with a "chip" on your shoulder. We were actually holding our own many years ago until YOU chumps gave us the "B" scale and allowed some of the FIRST SCOPE language to get written into the contracts.
What were seeing on this forum is simply another facet of the senior Usapian desires manifesting themselves IMO at the expense of the non-senior East minority to include junior East, West and the majority of legacy AA.
And still SENIOR TO YOU FOR MANY MORE YEARS TO COME. You demonstrate to the rest of these guys that your nothing more than an old ALPA shill from the commuters wanting to impress your APA masters on the finer points of telling the company of how to GFTS.
I believe saner heads prevail.