Originally Posted by
Trip7
Agree 100%. DPA type philosophy will result in the same path the Republican Party on, Path to being obsolete and irrelevant. This is what happens when you continually use emotion, repetitive rhetoric and statements that lack any math, reason, or analytical thinking(SWA Contract=8000 jobs, we'll have a new TA in 48 hours if rejected etc)
IMO getting 7ER banded this contract would be impossible unless we take a Cargo carrier type hit to the top rates like UPS and FedEx which pay their largest jets below UAL top rate.
I would prefer to keep the pay structure of the other Legacies and just band the 330 and 765. I think it's much more attainable and our 330 fleet is growimg rapidly.
Well it is growing I guess. I don't think rapidly is the word I would use. But we don't get if we don't ask to get the 7ERs included. Then WB/NB would be an easy step on the next contract, and then......