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Old 05-11-2017 | 05:29 AM
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Originally Posted by full of luv
It's part of the double whammy the group suffers when contract negotiations have stalled for so long, due to the lagging rates pilots start to pick up more and more time to fill in the wholes of their income.

At some point the group finally gets fed up with the realization there is no longer a "negotiation" going on and all of a sudden stop filling in all the holes of the schedule.

On the surface, looks like a "work action" to an outsider, person left at the gate when the flight is cancelled, to a judge who gets a handful of selected posts as evidence from a company who chooses to make an enemy of labor, to a press who will complicity read any press release from the company as if it's fact.

Stay strong NK pilots, you fly the same Airbus product thousands of other US pilots fly on a daily basis, to the same airports as they do, with more people on board then they have with arguably less support from your company than they have. What NK chooses to charge for tickets, what NK chooses to do with all of it's profits is purely NK management's decision. Your job description and compensation in the industry is pretty well defined at this point.

Unfortunately at this point the Judge is really the only one that matters. This issue is complicated, has a lot of legal precedence, and is not really a slam dunk for either side.

At DAL we inititially won in court and then lost on appeal. I am not going to repost this all again but if you are interested review posts number 66 and 71 from the "Open trips for JA" thread.

No matter how this turns out in the short run I think you guys will be OK in the long run - the market forces are clearly on your side.

Good Luck Spirit Pilots!

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