Originally Posted by ColdWhiskey

I know there is a lot of frustration. There will be a TA someday. I am of the belief that it will be later, rather than sooner.

With that said, once there is a TA, we owe it to ourselves, our union leaders, our negotiating team, and our fellow pilots to read, evaluate, and compare the TA to our current CBA, our expectations, and the industry standard pay and work rules (which keeps increasing).

If our NC brings us a TA that meets or exceeds these metrics and expectations, our pilot group will vote in favor. If we are presented with a TA that does not meet or exceed our peers, we absolutely should vote NO.

We have been working under the current CBA or a concessionary version for 10 years. Saying that we should vote NO on principle without ever seeing, reading, or evaluating the TA is short sighted.

Also, in my opinion, the duration of any future agreement is just as important, or more so, than the agreement itself. 10 years was an asinine duration, and we should never have agreed to that, no matter what our situation was.