Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
Your first paragraph and last sentence seem to contradict themselves. On the one hand you agree that profitability should affect the zone but in the last it seems like you think we can’t get much more than the other majors.
I would think we could do significantly better based on profitability alone.
Denny
Sorry if it came across that way.
Without profitability, it is much harder to achieve gains. The more profitable, obviously the easier.
There are a lot of factors on the reasonableness. History says the pilot market is one of the main factors. Some of the smaller airlines have negotiated very large percentage gains. They were also playing catch up as they were below the market to start with. In normal conditions, you haven’t seen those sort of percent increases even by the airlines that went on strike. (Once they reached market value)
Hey, the NMB may prove me wrong and they may think nearly doubling our current value is “reasonable” but if the past is any indication, I would not bet my profit sharing on it.
And by the way, I hope we get everything we are asking for (almost everything) I just don’t believe the NMB has the same definition of reasonable as some of our guys do.