Originally Posted by aa73

Lear, 7 concessions total. Some are less than others.

1) HBT give to the company (pilots can now acclimate overseas on local time instead of home base time - allows the company to schedule overseas routes more efficiently. Valued at around 300 extra pilots jobs)

2) combining Intl/Domestic ops (more scheduling efficiency for the company - negligible effect on pilots)

3) changing reserve availability from "reasonable available" to "promptly available" (negligible effect, but if it's the same why the change?)

4) relief to the company from "Cadillac tax" issue coming up in 2018. (Perhaps the biggest concession, as it potentially allows the company to change/terminate two of our health plans to avoid the tax, if we can't come to an agreement and the arbitrator times out. However, the question remains as to whether this tax will eventually get repealed by whatever administration is in office by then, and also, APA expects to come to an agreement with the company over this issue. Furthermore, all airlines will have to face it. So, it's a big question mark right now.)

5) contract extension for one year, with a 3% raise attached to that

6) midnight sims for landing currency (gives the company to schedule landing currency sims between midnight and 0400, but only if daytime sims cannot be accommodated.)

7) multiple month bids vs monthly bids. (allow the company to only run a vacancy bid every few months instead of our current practice of every month. )