Originally Posted by
Bluewaffle
I guess you’re not familiar with negotiating in public. Kirby knows he has no cards. Hes still gotta play the game though.
You don't seem to be familiar with much of anything about this process, but your projection is mildly amusing.
Originally Posted by
baseball
Kirby is pretty shrewd. He seems to be able to play poker pretty well even though he's got no cards. Here's what I see. I think he keeps learning, and keeps adapting. He has lessons learned from his last gig.
Kirby is prepared to "run the act." He will run the RLA game for as long as he can in hopes he can achieve a labor cost advantage over his competitors.
He knows if he does this he will achieve a significant LCA over the others, and then be in a position to force them to re-write scope for the entire industry. If we cave, on the next negotiating cycle we would have cause a domino effect that would set the industry back another 30 years in terms of the "value of a pilot", and the "value of the profession."
Well said.
We are in the front of the pilot pattern bargaining for a change, have a unified pilot group and MEC, a relatively good contract, a growing, profitable airline and a good economy. It doesn't get much better than this. If we give an inch on scope shame on us.