Originally Posted by
vc931
In the new TA FedEx is providing $1.67 million in value to FedEx pilots. How much are they saving in productivity improvements? One of the biggest savings for FedEx is the way carryover R-days will be handled in the new TA. Our current contract allows us to conflict carryover R-days with trips or R-ays in the subsequent month.In the TA, carryover R-days will take precedent over trips in a subsequent month and will have to be retained. The company will have much better reserve coverage during the bid month transitions and will require much fewer draft calls. Huge money savings for the company.
Plus, all that newly conflicted stuff will go into the secondary lines.
I predict that not only will the percentage of secondary lines grow to replace the 20% of reserve lines being put into it, the number of secondary lines will grow to include all of this. And, there is no language in the TA to keep the number of reserve lines we currently have, except we have to have 13% of R24. What stops the company from making secondary lines comprise 30-40% of the bid pack on their newly efficient PBS engine?