Long time lurker. Very low number of posts.
Unless this contract promises industry leading pay and QOL. Who cares that you are gitting new planes. Especially if these planes mean another company (Go Jet) might disappear, or other companies loose aircraft, and pilots loose jobs. Their are already companies out there that promised what you don’t yet have. So either hold out until you go to UA or hold out for top pay and QOL or move sideways to another regional.
To stoop so low and to undercut other pilot groups is what the industry CEO’s want. As an Union airline it is your duty not to allow anything less.
I hope you endure a future of hate and shunning from EVERY pilot group, and a lifetime of guilt, if you don’t hold out and vote in an ugly contract just because “new planes”.
The regional airlines pilots have endured the whipsaws and low standards long enough. You are in the best position to keep this historic increase in Pay, Benefits and QOL momentum going.
Talk about new airplanes should be last on the list!!!