Originally Posted by smoothatFL410

Kinda what I was sayin'. There is no need other than greed to accept a substandard contract that locks you in for a minimum 5 years and closer to 10 before a 2nd contract comes out.


There are many ways to skin the single day off cat. The obvious one is staffing enough pilots to be able to cover everyone having more than one day off. But even if that were to not work out, there are others. For instance, OK, you want to give someone a single day off, then you must give them 3 or 4 on their next days off. And if the company is so adamant to have the option to punish the pilots during peak travel months by reducing the minimum days off, then also reduce the number of single days off allowed, especially for the other months of the year.

IMHO the NC was very dumb if they did not limit the numbers of single days off to more than 3 or 4 a month. Then again, from what I'm seeing I am also seeing in the leaked documentation some other juvenile negotiating mistakes that they shouldn't have made.

But, I do understand this is at this time, speculative. We will see the real deal this week. Everyone wants a good contract. Some want any contract. Hopefully most won't accept a bad contract. And if a regional airline flying RJ's or turboprops has better work rules, then to me at least, that smells like a bad contract.

Right now I'm just getting a whiff. I haven't opened the burning paper bag, yet.