it has nothing to do with transportation. The CBA say lodging will be provided when pilots are doing company business away from their domicile. New hire pilots are based in Denver per the CBA when they report to class. The company unilaterally decided to provide new hire pilots with lodging in domicile, they did not provide all pilots eg. Upgrading pilots or pilots attending rgs, only new hire pilots because it suits the company’s current issues.

the next argument is, doesn’t say the can’t, correct, it doesn’t, but there is a long-standing practice where they haven’t. In addition the CBA doesn’t say the company can’t pay all the frontier pilots with last names starting with A-K an additional $10000/month, but I’m pretty sure if they did, all the pilots with last names starting with L-Z would be pretty ****ed off since they get nothing.

contract compliance is one of the most important issues we face. You may not love every piece of our contract, but it is a negotiated benefit that the company agree to and needs to comply with. Every time these and other issues come up we need to take a hard stance and make sure the company follows our CBA. Nothing would make me happier than securing a contractual benefit for hotels for new hire pilots, but there is a process that the company must follow. The benefit has been suggested by the union in the past, and the company said no way because they didn’t want to spend the money and had no problem filling classes. Now the tides have turned, and we need to support the association that is fighting to protect our CBA. I suspect there is a path available to the company to get alpa to agree to company provided hotels for new hires, but it isn’t going to be letting the company do whatever they want, and for that I applaud ALPA.