Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Just a small point, there was virtually no sick leave in the bankruptcy contract back then. Not enough to cover even 1 long international trip. Most pilots hired post 2010 have no idea how dramatic the contractual improvements have been since 2007. Sure is a good thing we abandoned the negotiating strategy that brought those improvements and went with the moonshot approach!
Good to know. I didn’t know sick leave was temporarily metered back to what, only 7-10 days a year? Still more than the average Joe by a lot, though.
It’s hard to describe a negotiating strategy as a moonshot based only on our opener and zero response from management on many sections before they drove straight to mediation. I expect an opener to be a moonshot - particularly in the economy it was offered in. I’m also pleased that certain items were already AIP’d - although not the big ones - before the pandemic.