Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
...And you can't give away this scope, for nothing, and then expect to get it back in the next Section 6. IF they would ever agree to that, they would make you pay for it with something else from the contract. So it makes no sense to GIVE it away now only to pay to get it back. That's the worst strategery I've ever heard...
Exactly. If we approve LOA 13, we are giving the company one more shell to play their CBA shell game with. ASMs will become currency in negotiations.
There are already too many shells in their shell game - pay, work rules, profit sharing, PTO, medical, retirement... every time you get an improvement in one area you pay for it from another area. There’s only one shell with a treat under it, but they want you to think all the shells have treats under them. They always move the shells faster than we can follow with our eyes.
Now we introduce a new shell - ASMs. The company will have one more item to increase or reduce when we want to fund something in the next CBA. The more variables, the tougher to get a good contract.
“Want profit sharing? Give away some ASMs.”
“Want to tighten up our 65% of Caribbean ASMs? Give up some pay.”
And the one nobody mentioned yet... “Want to get 10% of London ASMs? What are you willing to give up for that?”
Too many variables.