Originally Posted by
sailingfun
This is the part I don’t think pilots grasp. The company wants a cost reduction from the pilots. They have a contractually legal method to achieve that reduction. They are offering alternatives to the current contractual option. We as pilots are not deciding if there will be cost reductions. The only thing we are deciding is if we will force 100% of the reduction on the bottom of the seniority list or spread it throughout the seniority list. I know how I feel on the issue and what we should be done.
That is the thinking that has plagued you all
for decades. The smartest guy in the room parroted it just recently. They say we need X, how we get there is up to you. Pssst, hint....there’s y and z number too, you just don’t know it.
Many of the attitudes towards this agreement were shaped by the comments made about certain contract improvements by the same people now wanting “unity”.