Originally Posted by
asacimesp
Are you really saying that the company has never taken advantage of a contract language loophole? Seriously??? Or ever "reinterpreted" a contract provision? They have teams of lawyers combing through the language over this very thing as we speak.
I don't doubt it for a second. You think that YOUR MEC reps are a bunch of Pollyannas? I have never once in 20 years heard the phrase "we never thought that they would do that." It only exists in the mindset of the Internet message boards.
Your reps, your negotiators etc are well aware that the company will exploit what they could. That's why negotiating precise contractual language is so important and why we spend a lot of time doing so.
As for new concepts that have some unknowns, such as VBs, I'm glad that we can squash it if we deem it appropriate. I am 100% sure of one thing, 99% sure of a second thing, and about 80% sure of a third.
1. The MEC will very carefully deliberate and discuss even to a fault before they decide one way or the other on continuing VBs. There will be no surprise "gotchas."
2. Whatever the decision there will be some sub group of pilots upset about it. There will be a different sub group upset if the opposite decision were made.
3. Two to three years from now we may look back and see that VBs were not as big a deal as we perhaps had predicted.