Originally Posted by
bigdaddie
It's been awhile since I've posted here, but here it goes.
One quality of life contract improvement that should cost us almost nil would be travel during an awarded vacation period. How about one round trip PS for you and eligible primary pass members traveling with you. Book it within 1 month of travel and if Y class is available, you get it.
This crap of working for an airline with inaccessible pass travel needs to be addressed. It would be nice to travel on my own airline with my family once a year without having to pay for a 75% ticket.
The problem is we would probably negotiate it for all the employees like profit sharing or crew meals (remember what those were).
BD
I sent an email to my rep about this exact thing. I know that officially we don't negotiate for the other employee groups however when we do negotiate an item for the pilot group and the company turns around and GIVES it to the other employee groups which then dilutes the item then it shouldn't be assessed against us for negotiation purposes.
For example at the beginning of C2012, RA said that we had this much money available for our contract. It was up to us to decide how we were going to portion off the money to each section of the contract. So say we actually did negotiate positive space vacation passes and the company puts a value of $15 million on that item then turns around and gives it to the other employee groups then we get that $15 million taken off the ledger.
Just my opinion.