Originally Posted by Cujo665

Same thing happened at the regionals in 2012-215. The pre shortage push for concessions was on.... all the regionals were voting no to concessions. Republic, Expressjet, Eagle did 3x, even silver voted no....
BOOM, PSA Voted yes to concessions in exchange for some of Eagles planes and a flow. Their whole MEC was at American within a year... leaving behind a 10 year concessionary contract.
All it takes is one.

Personally I think Teamsters & ALPA should file joint action lawsuit against federal government that the RLA doesn’t apply to ACMI or Regionals.

When RLA was written you couldn’t go to a PanAm pilot and demand concessions under threat of giving their flying to TWA. The RLA wasn’t written with the contractor business model in mind, and as a result the built in status quo protections for fair negotiations aren’t there.