Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The company is in business to make money. They are not going to agree to protect every block hour flown today. Would you in their place given the current volatility worldwide and the potential for future financial meltdowns? The international landscape no longer changes every few years it changes almost daily.
The 650000 hour number is the total number of block hours flown at the time the company agreed to up the floor from 46.5 to 48.5 with the addition of Alitalia to the JV. The concept is we allow them to go back to 46.5 but keep worldwide protection at the level it was at then.
We currently are flying about 680,000 hours worldwide contrary to the constant forum posts about our shrinking international.
It's a give but overall with the other items mention changing in our favor I would take the new scope over what we have without factoring in any other aspects of the contract.
You are making my point for me. We will agree to shrinking to 650,000 hours when we currently fly 680,000.
The company doesn't have to agree to fly any amount of trips to any theater. They can cancel JVs anytime, and it sets them free. Right now, they have made a contractual agreement with us that in return for allowing the JVs to share our flying, we are protected by a certain percentage of flying. Get your JV partners in line if they are flying too many hours for not enough money. If we are not getting 50% (or 48.5%) of the flying, the company is cheating. If you don't show up to work 1.5% of the time, you get fired.