Originally Posted by monkeybrains

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.