Originally Posted by
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The only way to have a deal in place at the amendable date is to start early. Seems logical.
They want something. Management spread the sales pitch at the domicile town halls and standards meetings knowing the lca's and standards capts will do their bidding. This has to set in to the point that pilots have mental sightings of the aircraft in United colors on the ramps of Toulouse, Everett, or third party vendors. Refurbished and ready to go. The carrot
Now comes early section 6 coinciding with a couple references to a reduction in mainline flying if their demands aren't met.
The stick.
They'll have grand plans for which RJ's are essential. Updated mainline/rj ratios will be proposed. You'll be told how much you'll benefit from approving these new ratios, and the dire outlook if you don't. They'll tell you how we can't afford to fly those planes at mainline. Really? How many of those rj flights connect passengers to high dollar international flights?
How many of you new hires were frustrated being stuck at the regionals/military for ten years or longer during the great regional experiment? How many of you are tired of seeing substandard service at the regionals? How many of you are tired of getting kicked off a jumpseat on OUR routes? Lower boarding priority on a regional flight on OUR routes? GMAB
If management does not possess the skills to operate those planes as mainline, then I guess we should shrink. It doesn't look good on their resume though. It's time to leave this profession in a better position then many of us found it.