Originally Posted by
Moonbeam
There will be a fight all right, but it will mostly be the pilot group fighting amongst themselves. It does not matter if you think the equity stake is fair or not. As you can see they are already using it to divide the pilot group. Very soon, the end of 2015?, the pilot group will be equal and there will be those holding on to the dream of a 300,000 dollar pay out and negotiating from that stand point and the other half that wants to be brought up to industry standard. Indigo does not even have to hire Ford and Harrison during negotiations. Of course they may be in and out before we even get to that point.
Then we will be arguing about if FAPA money will be used to fight the inevitable lawsuits that will happen when the equity payouts don't turn out as planned as we are negotiating a contract. Might happen, might not, just like St. Augustine is going to be our east coast base.
FAPA Invest is a completely separate entity, and their investments will have ZERO impact on future contract negotiations now matter how many times upper management mentions it. Didn't Indigo already make a pass a FAPA Invest before the purchase of Frontier? And that produced nothing, correct? FAPA Invest is an investment group and its % in the company, as already mentioned, has been bought and paid for by the pilots that were on property during the signing of the LOA. I don't see 'a war between the old regime and new-hires.' We have a few self-serving super senior guys here that see nothing but rainbows and ponies for the future, but mostly our veterans have their heads on straight. We'll have our fight but not against eachother. Cheer-up!