Originally Posted by
Xray678
I'm not talking ratios, I'm talking block hours. Also, I don't care who first initiated a JV. I'm sure those deals are addressed every few years just like our contract.
Just once I would like to see a code share deal that benefits the Delta pilots more than it benefits the pilots at the partner airline. At a minimum we we should have 50/50 on the ratios.
Per the language 50/50 is the baseline. 48.5%-52.5% (section 3.P.4 for your reference). The test lines begin at below 48.5 and 47.5.
Keep in mind its Delta at around 50% and then all of AF/KLM/AZ make up the other 50. That seems pretty good to me.
But protecting our ratios is one thing, protecting our jobs in a down cycle or catastrophe is another.
We currently have NO protections. If trans atlantic cratered because of a massive attack in Europe or if the plague comes back, we would simply ratio down with our JV partners.
Jobs would be lost.
Now, we have gotten a shorter observation period to get money back if the company breaks our agreement AND we protect jobs with the block hour floor...keeping current jobs we have by allowing them to be shifted into other trans oceanic markets.
That seems like a good deal to me?