Originally Posted by
mikea72580
Anyone know the answer to these questions since they weren't included in the NN?
- How many jobs does the 2% concession in the TAJV cost us in the Atlantic theater?
- Since the US population is more than twice the other TAJV countries' population combined (322M/143M) one would think that the JV is flying US ticketed passengers by a margin of 2 to 1. The appropriate production balance would be around 33% Euro/66% US. What is the Company's rational for Delta pilots to fly less than half of the combined passengers, consisting primarily of Americans?
It's a TATL JV that involves access to EU flying, not a 4-country JV, so I think your ratio might actually be unfavorable if you count overall EU passengers, never mind populations within the Open Market. I don't know how they account for connections beyond the EU/Open Market or beyond the US. Would that skew the respective ratios even further?
The thing that's interesting to me is that since the JV was implemented, we took a large stake in VA, and that somehow
doesn't end up counting against us in the TATL JV, even though we're circumventing it in a way that doesn't benefit the other partners. To further complicate matters, with the
subsequent Brexit, you potentially lose the crowning jewel of the US-EU Open Skies agreement.
I think the share we
should have is a philosophical point, and could be the topic of very lengthy discussions. The point of section 1 changes in the NNP seems to be to protect what we have. One significant liability of our current agreement is that we're poorly protected against reductions in flying (cutting back one A380 flown by two pilots = cutting back a 767 flown by 6). If EASK's is the only metric, and flying is pulled down, we hurt disproportionately more.