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You think the difference between long term and short term hotels is $10 million. Really?
And you think waiving that language is worth $10 million to us. Really?
I didn't necessarily say it was long vs short. I said there is $10m a year in the language that could be changed with no affect on pilot qol and maybe an improvement for most. If the company realizes those savings you could see a reduction in distance in many cities. The thing is that we shouldn't give them $10m just for a shorter van ride which could be done right now. We have to see some/most of that put back into our compensation. That requires a new contract. So for now you will continue to ride 40min and like it. They know you don't like going out there and would gladly put us some place closer but a shorter van ride is not a fair trade for $10mil. Your discomfort is their leverage. Ours is $10mil/yr. who has more leverage? Suck it up.
We gave them a 1% staffing reduction (read much more than 10million) to get an iPad we would have gotten anyway. We should have seen that in more compensation in the contract. Don't make the same mistake because you don't like a few long van rides for the next few month(s)/year(s).