We will do better. The first contract was going to be a grinder. Now we have experience. I hope the round two starts off with the NEC framing the pilot group as ready to picket on Day 1. I think we will be ready for that too. We’re getting crushed out there. But we’re still not fully CBA implemented, so it’s not a 100% reflection of the gains made in the CBA.

The management is the reason for the adversarial relationship that has developed. When we voted in ALPA Dave B loved to say how everything would change and the pilots would ruin it all. The only thing that changed was management being held accountable for changing the game in their favor. For that reason the get upset at their managerial mistakes and thus blame pilots. They still pull that $hit but we’re getting there in possessing a medium to oppose their nonsense. (Grievance)

They’re very short staffed and the helpers are helping them crutch along. However, our D0 at 60% is a glaring black eye on Operations. The COO is responsible for that. Our management sucks. But this is the low point, or at least that’s what I’m chocking it up to. We can only get better. They can’t keep this rolling IROP going. It’s unsustainable. The cost is going to exceed the benefit and someone will be held accountable.

-Bubs