Originally Posted by
Nevets
Why did ALPA, the union that represents both ALPA carriers? Firs of all, ALPA is your MEC. All the FFD MEC got together to sign a pact that said they wouldn't undercut each other. All of them signed, except for one.
That was formed and signed after the PSA vote, and PDT was the one airline that didn't sign it. They made no bones about it they were out for a deal, if "concessionary" damn, if not, awesome, but a deal was going to happen.
O and BTW, I bought in to all the PSA hate. Go read my old post, but fact is it was a good deal for them that's why it passed 80%. I haven't seen any airline with 49 planes turn down 30. That's 60% growth, has your airline ever voted down 60% growth. The concessions were not in a vacuum they included 48 US Airways offers a year, there were 480 pilots on the payroll. 480/48=10 years. The cap was 12 years. The PSA pilots sold their future pilots position just like mainline has done countless times.