Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
I will concede (no pun intended) that the 3B4 might have brought up our payrates to our current rates...but I highly doubt it. The 0.55% "raise" kind of convinces me of that. The devil would be in the details.
I just think it amusing that C2K was actually applauded for removing all "scary, unpredictable" PS for "guaranteed" pay rates via a trade, but now any suggestion of the same is highly criticized.
I think the discussion fairly pointless to be honest and I am neutral on it all--so long as the company doesn't ever call a PS-for-payrates trade a "raise." I do know one thing. If we leave PS untouched and our profits tank (which I certainly don't see happening) the same guys insisting "no PS reductions" will be the first to state (loudly) "ALPA should have known this is a cyclical business and they lost their chance to lock in guaranteed pay rates."
If the 3B4 April 2015 increase wouldnt have been enough to bring us to current rates, a 3B4 increase in December 2015 would have been triggered which surely would have. You do realize our April 2015 3B4 rate increase would have been larger had our rates been lower to match AAL/UAL up to the % of the non-con raises. We would still have today's rates without the PS concession we made.
Giving up PS was a very bad move on our part. It is costing us real money today and will forever cost us more each and every year our company is profitable.