Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I read it. Go back and read the details. The savings are dealing with the two month period coming up and how we meet the companies goals. Note however that they admit they applied savings from a ER program that would accumulate through the end 2020. They also toss in the APR rebid. Other than that they provide no real numbers. A 20 hour a month reduction spread across at most probably 3000 pilots verses a 16 hour a month reduction spread across 14,000 pilots seems pretty simple math to me.
Ryan addressed that either in the video conference or an email, the union can't reveal any numbers because they are under an NDA for the Delta financials they used to calculate the numbers.
Would you prefer the Union and the pilots to roll over and say "Yes Sir!" without making a suggestion on how an alternative way to save money, that doesn't generate ill will like a 20% reduction in ALV (with NO change to the number of work days for reserve pilots, by the way) ? Mindswell not have a union.
What the company doesn't seem to get is that we have a contract. It cannot be changed just because the company wants it to (outside a BK court). The company has to negotiate with us and the contract covers us in good times and bad. I don't remember the pilots yelling that the other employees got a pay raise in Oct and we didn't get one - we're accept that we are under a contract and we'll work it out through section 6.