Originally Posted by
PurpleTurtle
The APA is good, but Jerry Glass is better. Sadly, the deal will happen sooner than later, IMHO.
Glass will continue to back away from "high-viz" things he never intended to get (scope, 2-hour call out, and the year extension) and he will continue to get fawning support from both the media and the pilots who can't do complex math (i.e are fixated on pay rates). The pay rates will be front in center in the mind of simpletons, but we will all pay for it twice over in the concessions that are impossible to value (because the company refuses to give us the data). We will get nothing for the 757 replacement, i.e. the AB321, nothing for LOS, Nothing for min calendar day (average calendar day, maybe).
Parker will lock in the cheap costs for years to come, providing his cost advantage over the competition. He will never have to compete on a level field. He is cheap like that. Customers get cheap. Employees get cheap. And Jerry Glass gets luxury, because he can deliver the cheapest employee costs in the industry.
The APA is good but they lost it when they let their judgement be clouded by an inordinate hatred of Horton.
60% membership ratification by the end of January. Welcome to America West Grande, the airline none of us even bothered to apply to.
Yes, we are making $4B profits but nobody remembers so we get an industry trailing contract (if you do the math). Jerry Glass is that good.
I wish I could agree that the APA is "good". The APA is as self-serving as any other union. In the fall of 2012 we had the ability to force change and the pilots were living up to their end. Instead, the current President pulled the rug out from under them with one automated phone call and neutered us all.......for over a decade (our next realistic time frame for implementation of a new CBA to replace the JCBA will be in the 2023-2027 range or 9-13 years). I certainly hope we don't end up spending that decade at the far back of the compensation (pay, bennies, work-rules) spectrum with DAL and UAL, but it sure looks that way.
The result you see from that day is the situation we now must accept we are in. Pilots (collectively) have always been their most effective enemies and Jerry Glass's entire strategy is based on nothing but exploiting the weaknesses we demonstrate that are so obvious. Jerry isn't smart at all, just perceptive and opportunistic and emotion is his favorite tool.