Originally Posted by
Mattio
It seems like a double standard. Vote Yes (assuming you were a yes voter) for the contract that wasn't quite good enough and then vote No for a pay raise when it becomes abundantly clear that everyone shafted the 190 guys too hard. Or, in other words, Vote Yes to not raise the bar and then vote No because a 190 raise alone doesn't raise the bar high enough......
It's lock-step with the history the airline world has of pulling the ladder up once you get to the top, and also lock-step with the story I heard of Airbus guys thinking 190 guys should have to re-interview before going to the Airbus to make sure they have the "right stuff"
It’s not pulling the ladder up. It’s called using leverage to make the baseline for everyone better when the company needs something. It’s no different than when the company at AA needed something. APA took that opportunity to gain several items in return for helping the company staff when they messed up. One of the biggest items was receiving an ADG (which was 5:15) instead of their duty period average. Anytime the company needs something is an opportunity to get something in return...and limiting a gain to a small fraction of the pilot group for a dying fleet would be dumb and short sighted. Demanding other areas of the CBA be brought to industry standard in exchange for allowing better 190 rates would benefit all JB pilots and would probably make CBA 2022 easier to negotiate. Of course this is hypothetical...JB trying to increase 190 pay isn’t that likely imo.