Originally Posted by
monkeybrains
When compared to industry average, the issue has nothing to do with “average”, it has to do with duty period vs calendar day, delta, United jet blue etc all have AVERAGE calendar days. UA is at 5:00 with no carve out, delta and aa is at 5:15 with a carve out to 0200. An average calendar day would have been nice. We got 100% dh, 3.5 rig (not tied to pbs) implementation and a 5:00 avg duty period. Next time we will get an avg calendar day. This is our first cba in a decade and 1st cba our of bankruptcy, it would have been great to get everything in one contract cycle, but no other airline was able to do that including DL, UA etc. we are most of the way there and next time around we will get the rest
We will never catch up when we keep agreeing to duration that is too long. Most of our peers have gone through 2 contract cycles since our bankruptcy concession agreement. That is because we agreed to a duration that was way too long.
Some of our peers are preparing for early openers on their next contract (essentially making us 3 cycles behind). Before the ink is even dry on our new agreement, our contract will be so far outdated, especially since we will be solidly in last place if we agree to this TA.
Let’s learn from past mistakes folks. The duration on this agreement needs to be 3 years, or we will forever cement our position at the bottom.