Originally Posted by
symbian simian
Suggest you reread 8-C. No distance limitation. So with current contract they can't cobase ACY and PHL, but they can and do start trips in ACY, with a limo to PHL.
I dont need to reread. I never said anything about ground transportation limits, I said cobase is at 50 and unless something is given up, it cant be a base. Again, this has been beaten to death. Ive already said my opinion on why a cobase could lead to an increase in ground transportation versus what we see now.
Simply put, and for the last time; if the company wants a base in PHL, let them make it a base and staff it as a base, its outside of 50 miles. Making PHL a stand alone base would reduce the amount of ground limos from ACY-PHL-ACY, wouldn't you think? If PHL has their own pilots, why make crews limo back and forth. IF they co base, then the limos back and forth will continue and probably increase as they increase the flying out of PHL. This affects us all, as we have all done the limo, and I think it sucks.
My point has always been I dont feel actions of 1 base or unique to only affect that one base.
Ronny and I differ on whether cobasing affects other bases outside of the cobase. We agree to disagree. Horse beaten to a bloody pulp at this point. And none of this changed without member ratification, as something in this scope is probably considered too large for any LOA from the MEC. It affects us all.