Originally Posted by
MOTOJOE
A huge portion of this airline retires in the next 5 yrs. for most of them their last contract. They don't want to wait for a few more percentage points. If this TA passes the MEC. Then behind closed doors most or all in this group will vote yes.
Exactly. It will pass. It's why I laugh when guys talk about strike funds, you'll never need it.
This is a done deal but I'm really curious to see it and hopeful it's good.
I had a conversation with a Captain who was outraged about the idea of them going back to the old LCA OE system where the FO was put back as #1 on reserve. He'd vote no and tell everyone and their moms to vote no.
But when he found out that they would just take the ability to bid the LCA trips away, he was fine with it. I think that will be the general sentiment about the LCA OE thing and thus it will pass.
What I am interested to know is what ability does the LCA have for swapping said trips? Because there will understandably be some not so happy LCA if they can't improve their lines and what does that mean for retaining good LCA.