Originally Posted by
Hawaii50
Negotiations are negotiations though and if we look at anything the company may want as a concession...
Not "anything" that they may want. It's only a concession if it's worse than what we currently have. We accepted concessions during bad times. We do NOT need to accept concessions during these good times. We only need to stay within a "reasonable" range of our industry peers to keep the NMB happy. Currently, we lag the industry in every single contractual section. We lead in none. This is the time for contractual gains. Period.
Originally Posted by
Hawaii50
we're setting ourselves up to be iced for as long as the company can.
See above. This kind of wrongheaded stuff actually damages the pilot group.
Originally Posted by
Hawaii50
Take a look around at the other carriers in contract discussions and see how long they've been at it.
If you're saying you're not willing to wait, you're saying you'll take whatever management offers.
Carl