Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Carl,
By "worst case" do you mean with the Virgin JV, or without?
With.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Without the JV, something like 300,000 international widebody block hours are unprotected.
The company can always decide to shrink to zero. Nothing new there. When our MEC votes this TA in, then the company can shrink our international block hours by over 100,000 hours AND still keep the Virgin Joint Venture. Without the TA, they'd have to give up the JV if they shrunk the block hours below what we're currently flying.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
JV scope is limiting, not a goal.
When the MEC votes this TA in, we'll be agreeing to lower that scope limit by over 100,000 block hours annually AND the company gets to keep the Virgin Joint Venture.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
We should not assume to know what the Company's plans are; economics change moment by moment. But we can, and do, build baseline protections ... and in this case, ensure our participation in growth.
Participating in growth is good. Shrinking by over 100,000 international block hours annually while the company gets to keep the Virgin Joint Venture won't be good.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Along those lines, Heathrow is slot controlled and it makes sense to run the largest gauge available into those limited slots. If so, Delta would have to add more international wide body block hours to keep up on an Available Seat Kilometer basis.
I thought you just said we shouldn't assume to know what the company's plans are.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Again, we are debating an LOA which has not yet been fully vetted by and debated by our Reps, the men we trust to perform the job with the assistance of subject matter experts. We should defer to our Negotiator's Notepad and Reps' communications.
I know that's how you view our democracy here Bar. Most of us agree that trust but verify is the key. You think it should just be trust. I think your model is what's currently causing the deep division and dysfunctional behavior currently on display in our MEC.
Carl