Originally Posted by oldmako

I respectfully and completely disagree.

Ten bucks says that today, the spineless 15 percent of the combined group could easily be talked into relaxing scope with only minimal incentive. Add to that a modicum of economic bad economic news, either UA specific or US/Global, and that number jumps to 25-35 percent. Add some really bad news and the Marvin's will be sweating bullets and wringing their hands.

Of course there will be guys here who will say that I am smoking ganja, but consider that we have a ton of guys nearing retirement. Most are secure in their left seat job and scope now means little to them. Recall that they have been severely shafted several times by both the vagaries of the industry and through malice during bankruptcies. You have the ESOP crowd, and the "I flew for peanuts" crowd. They see third year guys now making far more than they did for decades. Money talks. But, big money shouts. You dangle enough in front of them you've got their vote.

Fortunately, what may ultimately save us from ourselves is our MC. But don't be surprised by their capitulation when the feces starts flying because the sky is falling.

UA getting more RJs is a Billions of dollars proposition over the life of the airframe. They will be pulling out all the stops and opening their cash drawer WIDE. I submit that if they don't get a big chunk of that RJ flying back this time, they likely never will. And they know it.

Meanwhile, there will be additional attacks on other parts of the CBA.
Guys will willingly cave for these items "if it protects scope" and if the Benjamin's are present.

All of it (!) is a giant smelly canard. They can afford for us to do it all and have it all. One need only look at how much the last two teams were awarded when we were making half of what we make now.

Don't be a sucker.