Originally Posted by
Waitingformins
Recently Delta pilots settled a dispute in their contract about international flying that was suppose to be at Delta but the company decided to dole it out to the codeshare partners.
Many pilots thought the settled amount was far less than the damage of breaking the contract.
Right now the flow and the company's financial interest are aligned, no one knows exactly what will happen once they aren't. It stands to reason that an airline purses it own finical interest before honoring a deal. The caution is that you don't want to end up with a "Were sorry for screwing you and here's $5K for the 3 years of employment we cost you at AA". O and btw had you went to a different carrier when we promised you the flow you would be a captain right now or already at a different mainline.
That still doesn't answer how stopping the flow would HELP envoys retention and recruitment. It would only solve their problems for a few months while FOs flee the company like rats off a ship and the new hires stop. Its like teaching a student pilot the importance of maintaining best glide speed during an engine failure. Pitching up may temporarily make it appear that you are stretching your glide path to make the field but ultimately you are shortening your glide path and putting yourself in an even worse situation you were in to begin with.
The Delta arbitration is not a valid argument because the only negative impact Delta had to deal with due to their actions was the financial loss. For envoy to stop the flow, they would eventually have to correct the contractual violation but would also suffer greatly on the retention and recruitment aspect of their business.
Please, anybody, describe to me a scenario where stopping the flow could have a long term positive effect on envoy's staffing. It just doesn't make business sense.