Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
By the same logic, those of us born after WWII have no standing to criticize Hitler, since we weren't "there." GMAFB. I'm beginning to reasses my evalutation of you as an even-handed commentator.
"The PS was a liabliity, before it was an asset." That's the point. No one expected profit sharing to be this massive.
Why are the DALPA admin usual suspects trying to justify a way to get rid of it?
I hope you don't mind if I admit openly to not seeking your endorsement for even-handedness. But OK, I'm going to dispassionately and politely tell you that you're barking up the wrong tree. We understood the company would be very profitable, because of the magnitude of the concessions. That wasn't even a question.
In the spirit of fairness, I'll help a little bit, by suggesting a lot of guys tweaked and improved the PS. Some of the guys you have a strange hatred (is that word OK?) for, some which are more agreeable to the reps whose praise you sing.
Anyway, you're standing on your own crank on this topic.
As far as your other question, I'm just speculating here, but I would imagine it's because they see a way to get get some value for some modifications. I think that idea has gained traction. It's been a while since IAV84DAL crashed and burned here, so I never got to give a grudging partial apology, but the idea does roll around and around in your brain, when you do the arithmetic of No QOL concessions + payraise increase we want + PS = something we can gain. Wouldn't play well online, but maybe there is some convergence of pilot guidance and MEC/NC strategy? I'm not saying I know this to be true, since neither one of us does, I'm just saying that a lot of these ridiculous gyrations we're going through with APC politics now don't change the fact that most everyone wants to see a product they can vote on, and probably don't expect to pay the cost of political infighting. I bet you want to see a deal, and I want to see a deal, and Jerry wants to see a deal, and everyone here wants the NC to succeed, deep down inside. If nothing else, it'll be something new to argue about.
So I suspect these hints about PS, and the obvious "at-risk" language change prime us for it. But first, we must have 100-150 pages talking about hypthetical heroes in a council or another who would never ever touch PS in a world that doesn't exist, vs the pricks that are standing on top of PS's corpse with a dagger, and a pillow with ether in it, or some nonsense.
In the end, I want the process followed, the best deal we can, no deal if it doesn't meet our requirements, and as little self-inflicted damage as possible.
There. I just told you the truth. How's that for even-handed?