Originally Posted by
DonConsult67
And what did you expect from this, or any Regional Airline ???
The industry's business model and legal strategy is based upon over-promising and under-delivering, making illusory promises wrapped around vagueness and fine-print caveats, and pushing the limits, knowing the penalty, civil sanction, or ultimate expense, assuming they're are even caught (and the catchers have the resources to pursue it), is far less than the profits made by their transgressions.
As for your "ironclad language", in contract law there's no such thing, least of all in the aviation industry. Regional airline contracts, CPP's, "flows", employment bonuses, scope clauses, hiring or interview assurances, etc. aren't worth the paper they're written on, because the entities themselves have a long track record of not being truthful or trustworthy. You need not look far and, even then, Chapter 11 merely enriches the airlines at the expense of the employees who take the risk.
When will the masses learn neither your regional airline employer, or its incestuous-wth-management "union" simply don't care about honoring what they promised yesterday ~ tomorrow's another day and they can play the game again.
Does your angry rant have a salient point or some sort of call to action? I’d love to be flying for Delta or United right now but there’s no better path right now than grinding it out at a regional.
Clearer language would expedite the grievance process. We have far too many loopholes in our contract that assume the company will act in a fair and equitable manner. At the very least it wouldn’t hurt anything.