Originally Posted by
Eaglepilot84
Haha, I love it when people say "because it was a judges arbitration." So I guess you're claiming that any flow after that is essentially worthless and can be "bottle necked" at any time because it's not a judges arbitration? Please elaborate. I might need to re-think some career plans thanks to your wisdom.
They (the company) can't. Those who suggest otherwise are just talking out of their asses. One can have confidence in the flow for two reasons. 1) Whatever critical staffing situation that, as inferred, would motivate violation that contractual provision, would immediately cause the staffing situation to worsen. There are many other incentive actions that can be taken prior to that point that would be more effective and cost less without having such a negative effect on recruitment and retention. 2) ALPA has won every grievance concerning the Letter 3/Flow creating a significant past precedence on the subject. In other words, the restriction of flow would have a minor and short lived significance on envoy staffing.
Claims to that effect have no legal or logical (business) sense to support it. They are simply saying what they hope will happen without any logical argument to support it.