I've often worried about asking too much in a negotiation setting. Seeing this done a few times, I'm not and I'm surprised at Sailings reluctance. The company was looking for revenue nuetral, and thats as offputting to the NMB as asking for the moon. The nmb told the company to get real. We spent 6months doing a kabooki dance but clearly some pilots feel thats all the unions fault. Im afraid not. The company is going to sacrifice some of its profits to pay the pilots more. The company wants to sell out our scope, thats worth about 3 billion to me, obviously theres some disagreement. Company wants COLA and to pat us on the head once? Fine, give us all the regional flying back and 50-50% on the ****ing widebodies. Theres your damn COLA.
Time to get real here.