Originally Posted by
BenderRodriguez
Anger will get you beaten. It is a terrible strategy. I am not so sure about your contention of the rubber stamp thingy. Maybe you can explain what you mean, because I am not sure I see it that way. Do you think that our current language can stop what you are talking about? Show me how. Educate me.
My prediction is that if this passes, the most senior guy on the E190 left seat will be a 5th year guy for the forseeable future. If you fly it as a 64 year old it will be because you WANT to.
Haha. Im angry but I judged this TA on merit. This happens to be right up my alley as my BS and MBA degrees are all in this area, and I did union work for 3 years.
Scope permitted arrangements with foreign carriers govern that. The limits are set and the company is free to sell tickets on other carriers to those limits. Right now we have a VA JV, Air France/KLM/Alitalia JV, and Virgin Australia JV. There will be a China (Eastern) JV coming soon, and all this new TA language will do is set a precedent for loose metrics. Knowing the company wants metrics that absolve them of violating the JV ratio every year thus far, and all of a sudden they would be in compliance under the new TA, why wouldn't they take this language and ram it through with the future China JV? Do you honestly believe were not going to JV in China? This is a big deal, its our future growth (or lack there of).