Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
No concessions like United did? Care to rethink that? Oh sure their recent two year deal was a pay-only deal (one I would have voted for were I a UAL pilot) but as usual, they "punted" so that the DAL pilots could do all the real work and heavy lifting, like we have for over a decade.
But beyond that, many guys were upset about the witholding of 75% of LCA trips from F/O bidding.
United doesn't have that...they withhold 100% of LCA trips! How do you think that would go over here?
No concessions? Oh yes they have...just "prebuilt" in advance. You'll forgive me if I don't look to them as some industry ideal.
(p.s. they actually do have some good features we could emulate, such as premium pay for FDP extensions--I think--but I just wanted to state that they indeed to have concessions in their contract).
They didn't give concessions in this time of unprecedented profits!
Call it a rate only contract if you like. If we took what we have now and applied 22/7/7 it would pass. I think we should get a lot more soft time stuff, but it would pass.
Not only would it pass but we wouldn't have to spend the next 3 years discovering the ways management could exploit the new language loopholes.
(you went all bold, italicized, underlined first, relax and turn up your hearing aid)