Originally Posted by
Lincoln Osiris
How would Spirit pilots get screwed if spirit decided to go out and buy another airline? 1.E.3 provides job security for us if that were to happen. Do you not think think the MEC and ALPA lawyers went over every single word in this? This stuff was not just pulled out of thin air. But as to why 1.E exsists at all? That would be a better question for an ALPA lawyer or at one of the road shows.
No good can come to the pilots from Spirit owning two SEPARATE airlines. None. Protecting your job at the time of the buy is one thing but I guarantee you that there is a shiit storm to follow that day. And the fact that buying a foreign or regional carrier releases them from all protection should be a red flag.
I think ALPA went through this and figured it was the best they could get with our mediator without a no vote. They wrote our current language and it’s worse so what’s that tell you.