Originally Posted by
StickPig
This mentality doesn’t stop at the regionals. Guys at legacies have it too for some reason. Getting your time and getting out is a nice sentiment, until the person stuck holding the bag in a downturn is you. Or worse, bombing your first big interview awaiting another call. The problem with your thinking is betting on best case scenario. I’m a plan for the worst kinda guy, and I also think about the people after me who haven’t been hired yet. It’s a regional contract that God only knows when will get done again. You want to take marginal gains without seeing the whole TA and a few extra bucks only to STILL be at the bottom in nearly every facet of money and QOL within a FFD contract. Short sighted thinking.
This particular TA offers substantial improvements in QoL and offers reimbursement for positive space commuting. I don't see it as the bottom of the FFD contracts.
I hope for the day when there isn't a huge disparity between regional and national airline compensation packages. I am not sure you get there with one pattern bargaining cycle though. Ideally we eliminate the contract carrier model entirely but that will take more solidarity than we have in my opinion.
Hopefully Mesa can outdo us and set the stage for whoever is next. That's how pattern bargaining actually works.