Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
So now pilots will be flying sick because "we do whatever it takes to have a buffer"?
Throwaway one-liners like that might make for entertainment on internet message boards, but don't get anywhere in real negotiations.
Herk,
The whole, "We must fall down in the face of anything management demands" act is getting old.
In real negotiations, if you make the assessment I made, all you do is put a "no" in front of your statement and then move on, Orc come up with a counter proposal. If it's something major, you walk away. It would start off something like this:
No. We aren't agreeing to that, because it will cause our pilots to fly sick, because we do whatever it takes to have a buffer."
Are you another one who underestimates us "regular pilots?" A few of us might know a thing, or two about "real negotiations."