Originally Posted by
Old UCAL CA
If you guys are truly interested in reserve rule changes or, contract changes in general, you have to start comparing your contract to your direct competition (American, Delta and Southwest)...and then summarize to per-capita (pilot) total costs.
In a fiercely competitive environment, the market rules everything. What existed at legacy UAL or Continental in the past is irrelevant to the current (2015/17) competition. If personal "wants" don't relate to what exists at the competition, or are not competitive on a per-capita total cost basis, you are unlikely to see them.
My fading recollection is a large number of "living-in-the-past dinosaurs" at this company...very slow in adjusting. Thank G*d for new hires and lots of retirements.
Thank G*d for your retirement, Marvin! I'm giving you honorary Mainliner membership since you're exCal.
And thank you very much for providing us with the lens through which I will now view all of your posts. The crap reserve rules at pre-merger CAL are exactly why our current reserve rules took a massive steamer in our current contract.
Meanwhile, let's just keep thanking our lucky stars that we are have a job!!! I'll be sure and genuflect at the jetbridge the next time I am fortunate enough to go strap on my airplane! Moving into the future we can just continually ratchet down our expectations of what an ATP ought to be worth in todays "fiercely competitive environment". And then we can settle for less.
To all of you "slow adjusters" who might just expect more more, and who might think that 3Billion dollars might be more appropriately spent, thank you for your intransigence.
Dinosaur James.