Originally Posted by
Omniscient
Yeah, most airlines are NOT own occupation. Outside of the Big 4,5,or 6 (whatever the grouping of the week is) it’s not as prevalent as you like to make it seem it is. Read Frontier’s LTD language to start.
You want big things like no income offsets, medical lasting past 5 years, and retirement contributions? You better get more than 40 pilots to show up and participate next go around. If this group wants a big boy contract, they will need to put more effort in.
^this!!!! Makes me laugh when discussing with other pilots what we “missed” out on with our contract.. yet they vaguely remember exactly how far behind we were at the time. They also vaguely remember how apathetic this pilot group is and how poor participation was! Funny that everyone wants to voice their opinion of how the union “screwed us” with this contract... but when I bring up “hey we had 40 guys out of 300 in a base show up to picket!” They quickly close their mouths... oh yeah, 10 AA pilots came to that picket!
Let’s hope next time around we’re more engaged and we make gains where needed!