Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
The fear is being swa and parked and losing out on money with things like that C44 letter about 25% raise required to get money back, etc. has some petrified.
I see that the NMB is more of a focus than 8633 now.
Not with me. I'll sit on our higher PS that will most likely offset 6% of the "raise" as well as keep the superior PS calculation metrics, the superior "hammer" pay review language (the other groups WILL continue to get raises), the trip pulls for OE, superior premium pay generating "reserve coverage formulas" the vastly superior and vastly safer sick leave language, fewer 76 seaters while they can't staff their 50 seaters anyway, superior AF/KLM JV language, etc.
So throw us in the Briar Patch and start the NMB clock. We'll be ready and unified in 3-5 years with strike funds built up if that's how long they want to stiff us for. I don't think it will get to that though.
They offered 1.1B in extra value. I say gift them 100 Million back. Shareholder return, executive compensation, buy them some airplanes or donate it to charity, and only take 1.0B and put it all into pay. If its properly costed, that's a huge and very reasonable compromise that will be very, very hard to argue with.