Originally Posted by
BobZ
Herk......I wonder how many here will recall the mec negotiating the vacation sell back......and then telling us it was a pay raise?
Yep. I remember that. It was actually a concept called vacation pre-sell, one of the gems from our 96 contract. Pilots could decide prior to the beginning of the vacation year to "pre-sell" or liquidate up to half their vacation. The real problem was that the company then took the amount of vacation weeks liquidated and reduced the staffing numbers based on that. Then for the next few years come pre-sell time the MEC would then strongly urge pilots NOT to presell, which of course would lead to "then why did you negotiate that in the first place?"
The really funny part for the presellers was that they didn't even see the money for something like 15 months!
DALPA did successfully get rid of that with our C2K contract.