Originally Posted by
Der Meister
Nothing in this section shall preclude the Company from entering into a
capacity purchase, code-share agreement, a marketing agreement, an
interline agreement, a pro-rate, block space agreement, or joint venture,
so long as such agreements do not result in the furlough of any of the
Company’s Pilots.
Guys, if this is some of the exact language from the scope section I would not read any further. File your NO vote now!
Our scope section at spirit as a paragraph that is literally identical except "capacity purchase" is not included in ours. It's a huge con. What's to stop them from selling all of our orders to another airline and then entering into a code share agreement with that airline and having that airline operate all the growth we would have been flying. Therefore, stagnating the seniority list until attrition and retirements shrink us out of existence. Then they just become a ticketing company that sells spirit flight xxx operated by frontier airlines.
The rest of the contract does not matter unless scope is locked down. Ask a southwest pilot why their TA failed. Ask a JetBlue pilot if they would have had wide bodies by now if it weren't for codesharing. Ask a delta pilot what the biggest scope hole they are trying to close (joint venture).
Do not read any further!! Vote no purely based on that one paragraph of scope. Without scope you potentially have no job so what's the rest of the contract worth then? Without solid LTD and you lose your most fragile asset, your medical, what's the rest of the contract worth then?