Originally Posted by gloopy

This doesn't pass the smell test. Cab fares to EWR are 100% fair because even considering EWR part of a "New York City base" is laughable and a huge longstanding concession to the company already. Many current and former pilots living in MSP know this very well, as do pilots from every base.

But something like that wouldn't generate any significant level of contention anyway. The cost is relatively low (unless we're talking about fll reimbursement for walk up Yellow Cabs, and even then its still not that expensive for the company in the grand scheme of things.

We're about to see a TA with numerous layered and embedded concessions, some of them deep. It will obviously contain a pay raise, probably aprtially paid for with concessions, and will probably contain a few QOL increases to help offset some of the negatives. TVM and speed will be used to push it as not only a win, but the only alternative to the NC quitting and the NMB chewing us up for 3-5+ years, maybe forever. IOW fear. We can't afford not to take these concessions.

I would hope that any rep, in any base, would be against all but the most minor and borderline meaningless concessions in an economic environment such as this, but it appears that ship has sailed, at least for the initial TA.