Originally Posted by
LeineLodge
Similar to what 80 said, I had our codeshare committee chairman explain that part to me earlier. I highly respect his opinion as he has lived these numbers in greater detail that I ever want to - by "not so bad" I meant that it seemed more or less the same result as what we currently have, just a different metric to measure the same flying. Part of the rationale was that as we upguage to 330's from ER's some of the EASK deficit would go away, and also something about how we augment and the euros don't. I'm not willing to write that section off until I understand it better.
This is all moot if the reps don't ratify it. We'll see tomorrow if they even get through all the material - which they had barely begun to do this afternoon by 6pm...
His description was similar- we prob had the same guy. It didn't hit home with me, though. They staff only slightly different than us- most of their ops are 3 pilot just like ours.
We were writing back to each other... it was pretty funny. I wrote down 1 757= 1 380?!?
He scratched out my 1 757 and put 50 350. I scratched out his 50 and put 25, then a further minus 16 for the loss of the 744.
If this gets passed by the MEC tomorrow, I hope they will appropriately address the positives AND negatives to this change. Given the glaring errors and poor interpretations from harwood's presentation today, I'm not particularly upbeat on that hope.
We'll see. There are a couple schools of thought in regard to the reps killing the TA- Kill it in the process now, or send it to the membership and have them kill it which will possibly send a stronger message.