Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Contracts are normally 3 years. We gave the 4th year as a concession in TA2. We could easily have completed a contract in Dec worth at least a billion in improvements to the pilot group and probably In excess of 1.5 billion. We would have exchanged openers for the next contract in about 2 years. I am not sure we will have this one done in 2 years but I will take 18 months in the pool. That delay will force it into a 4 year deal amendable 31 Dec 2023. Contracts that go well past amendable dates typically end up netting a couple percent over what could have been completed on time but more importantly delay the progression multiple contracts bring. We now also face a real possibility AMR or UAL sign before us and lock the bar.
Not completing the contract on time will be a tremendous loss to your family. It will come to you eventually.
”Pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered”
So... you are arguing that we should have made ourselves more expensive because now the company can't afford us being more expensive?
You've been here too long to be this naïve. Well, I guess you haven't been, but your rambling doesn't make sense unless I look at it through the lens that you are whining that you aren't currently getting more money in the bank. I'm perfectly fine waiting as long as it takes for the right contract, and there was no way to predict it would come out like this. I am perfectly content waiting until things turn around to get a new contract if that's what it takes. And I don't really see us costing $1 billion more a year being to our benefit right now.