Originally Posted by
minibus
Oh. Please. It's an open forum. One of my best friends is one of your most senior captains. He has gone to the road shows, and talked to your expensive, useless ALPA lawyers. He is horrified by this deal. When it's our turn in the hot seat I would welcome any input from all pilots, regardless of carrier. The idea is to move forward. I walked the line with you last time and will happily do so again.
The fact that you talked to a friend who's a senior captain here doesn't mean you know a lot about our TA and should tell us how to vote.
In fact you called this a concessionary contract in a previous post. This TA has over $920 million in gains opposed to $64 million in work rule give backs. About a 14 to 1 ratio. Do think ALPA and the NC and the MEC is lying to us? Do you have better numbers than the ALPA financial analyst? So with an average pay increase of 43%, a DC plan that we didn't have before, a much improved LTD plan, better rigs, and better scope, are you still saying it's concessionary?
I understand why some very senior here don't like the TA. The loss of transition conflict means they can't get either 4 or 6 days off in the next month pay-protected, setting themselves up for a junior assign on top of that. Problem is the majority can't get that deal.