Originally Posted by BunkerF16

If the range of our peers was from 5-10 and we come in at 5, technically we're peer average. Reality is, we're bottom of our peer set and we fall below them in 3-6 months and the gap grows each year.


I could have taken vacation with the current system if I wanted. But the reality is, if I used all my PTO now for vacation, and I use all my vacation and PTO with the new system for vacation only for comparison sake, I lose a week of vacation. Concession.


COLA--agree


PS--agree


OE--disagree that it only affects a small percentage of pilots. Now with me not able to bid them, I'll take higher productive trips that the guys below me were bidding because I passed them up for less productive trips the CKA were bidding. So it affects all FOs below me. Or, I upgrade. I'd sit about 30% CA in BOS on the Bus. So now I'd get trips and vacation that 70% of the CAs below me were normally getting, but now I'm taking. Same with vacation. Now as a reasonably senior CA, I'm going to get vacation that other CAs would normally have gotten had I not upgraded. Finally, even with my upgrade, I took a CA slot some junior guy would have loved to have had, but no can't because I'm taking his slot. So to say that the OE withholding of trips only affects a small amount of guys is shortsighted IMHO.


Again, are there things in the TA that are good? Of course. It's not total sh1tbag of a deal. But to me, if falls horribly short of where it should be, and what I believe we still could get if we turn this one down.