Originally Posted by
Macjet
Honest question brother, have you been to a road show? And I'm not asking in a demeaning way.
I was a YES on the AIP bullet points, a HELL NO after reading Sections 1 and 25, but I'm now going to vote YES after attending a road show. There were a lot of facts and data presented. There were a lot of rumors dispelled. There were a few of you quoted from here. We can also point the majority of the blame at the forthcoming loss of reserve drops on the DFW Whatsapp Tinfoil Hat Brigade and their lunatic ex leader. If ever there was a group to distrust and not follow those few are it.
I'm not going to try to argue for or against but I will encourage everyone to attend a road show. It wasn't a 'sell job' and I was going in with the mindset of voting no. Educate yourself and then vote was is best for you.
What guys aren’t getting is I want to vote yes on this thing. I haven’t been complaining about section 25 and while section 3 isn’t my cup of tea I’d vote for it because of the very important gains elsewhere. Good money, a DC retirement, own occupation LTD, and scope protection for mergers and prevention of outsourcing my current job or growth. We are 95% there. The 5% unfortunately deals with outsourcing growth and that’s a problem for me.
I streamed the ord road show and saw all the graphs and listened to all the Q and A (not day 2). I’ve read every Q and A email and the master Q and A on the TA website. I’ve also read the entire TA page by page. My concerns on most of 1.E have been addressed and although it’s not what I would’ve liked to see, I can probably live with it I think. I’ve sent email with other scope concerns I have that have gone unanswered.
I respect the NC and the entire panel doing the road shows and I know they are very busy. They may not have gotten to my emails yet. I plan to ask my questions in person. It’s not a personal attack on anyone here or the NC or Art. My questions have not been answered. I just get called crazy and that I don’t know anything but no one can seem to tell me definatively that my concerns are unfounded with supporting language to prove otherwise.
I read the scope section as if I’m John Bendoritis and Ted Christie trying to seek a work around of my now higher cost pilot group. These guys have a history and it’s not pilot friendly. The will not grow this airline with us if they don’t have to. I want our scope section to ensure that they have to.
If a frontier merger is slated for tomorrow it would be smart to take this just for what’s in it now. I understand that.