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I don’t disagree with that, but the company really isn’t disregarding the CBA. As pointed out, it states when the company MUST provide hotels. It doesn’t restrict them from doing it at other times and there’s nothing that says they CAN’T provide hotels in domicile. Hypothetical scenario… A pilot has two back to back trips with 11 hours rest in between. It’s the middle of winter, it’s a snowstorm and the pilot can’t drive home after completing the first trip. He asks if it’s possible for company to provide a hotel in domicile due to the circumstances and the company honors the request. This is a violation and needs to be grieved? In fact, that’s no hypothetical. Hasn’t the company in the past provided in domicile hotels during IROPs upon pilot request?
the CBA provides the company the ability to furnish the pilot a hotel in that situation. In the case of providing hotels to new hire pilots in their domiciles, there is a past practice going back 20 plus years where that has never happened, just like there is a similar past practice of the company never providing pilots hotel rooms in domicile while in training. There is nothing gray based on that language and that past practice, period, end of sentence. Sorry but that is a fact.
the company has just announced a merger and if you think a kinder gentler indigo is going to show up at the table, you guys are kidding yourselves. Let’s not give away the little bit of leverage that we currently have.