Originally Posted by
Free Bird
I'm a solid NO vote and it's due to the fact that this TA will result in an overall reduction in our quality of life. This TA certainly will not improve our QOL, I don't even think it will maintain it, we're still moving backwards.
Passing this TA sends a very clear message to management going forward. Is all management has to do is low ball us with a TA, if we accept it great and if we don't that's fine too. Then within a year or two the pilots will accept QOL concessions just to keep up with the rest of the industry.
If we can't make improvements now, not restoration, just improvements to our quality of life now, we will more that likely continue to see our QOL decline in the future when the retirements kick in. Really hope I'm wrong on that.
This may not be a home run (I think it is close) but I don't see the QOL complaints...I see this as big QOL improvement. I can work 2 or 3 days less a month and work under the same budget is the best QOL improvement I can imagine. I've never come close to 100 hrs of SL, and if I do this TA is a minor inconvenience. The rest is small potatoes on the plus and minus side (with many more of those being on the plus side)