Originally Posted by
rahc
Bender,
The AF/KLM issue is a huge concern of mine as well.
Two parts about it burn me....
1. with block hours and current flying levels, they are in compliance whereas with the seat kilometers they are not.
2. the lookback period of 3 years is all of a sudden dropped to 1. I view this as 2 years of flying that they don't have to make up for anymore.
I've heard people talk about how we have 350s coming, and if we upgauge a flight its negative for us... but they have just as many 350s on order as we do (25 of them). Plus they have 777-3s coming, as well as 787-9s. I know the 777-300 has a larger seating capacity, but what about 787-9s?
We are always going to have markets for the 757 such as KEF, SNN, MAN, DKR, etc that don't demand anything larger. What is the smallest aircraft they fly trans-Atlantic?
Just to put a finer point on #2 above, the even bigger problem is the alternating one year measurement/one year cure provision. It would allow the company to fly ZERO block hours next year, then 50% of the block hours the following year, and that would COMPLETELY AND FOREVER cure the year where they flew zero block hours. Then the cycle could start again.
Why on Earth would anyone agree to language that allowed such a hammer to be used against us as leverage.
Carl