The union and the company reached a reserve LOA about a year ago. Part of the agreement had improvements for the pilots. While other changes favored the company.

In my opinion, a lot of the pilots that had been bitter about being on reserve for so long decided that anything that wasn’t a total improvement for the pilots and a gift from the company should be shot down. The LOA got a really bad reception from a vocal minority of pilots.

The MEC was already doing road shows at this point and a vote was going to be scheduled for the pilot group on the LOA. The vocal minority opposed to the LOA got the MEC to pull the LOA and it was never voted on.

In my opinion the LOA was a win-win for the pilots and the company. The MEC and the company thought so too. A vocal minority derailed the vote.

If you want an improvement to reserve, you need to reach out to your reps and let them know what you think an acceptable reserve agreement looks like. Unfortunately, the company may not still be willing to listen.

The only leverage the pilots really have in this situation is trying to game the current proffering/confirming system and leaving them short of pilots by having all pilots on rap 1 or all pilots on rap 2. I don’t think there’s enough unity in the pilot group to make that work. So for now things are stuck.