Originally Posted by
Tranquility
Ummm, if the merge is approved, there won’t be a next CBA. No way an individual CBA is negotiated, AIP’d & TA’d and subsequently voted on before the approval on the merger.
And, between both of our current CBAs, after reviewing both, we Spirit pilots have more to lose if the JCBA is not negotiated appropriately. Frontier definitely has a few aspects that I would love to incorporate into the final piece, but as a blueprint…. Yeah.
Also, we need to incorporate other airlines language too! This is not just a JCBA but also a chance for both of our groups to capture certain aspects of other CBAs that we like as well. Let’s keep a broad mind and capture all the gold that exists.
Agree, but my point is the CBA was up for renegotiating anyway, so if there hadn’t been a merger planned, we would still be going through the negotiation process, and it will still require a majority vote, with NK Pilots being a majority of the combined group.
It doesn’t seem to pose any greater negotiating risk than any CBA negotiation would have been with the fact that Sprontier needs a JCBA for the merger actually giving the pilots additional leverage.
Does that mean the pilot group can’t screw up the negotiation? Probably not, but at least they’ll have to work harder to do it.