Originally Posted by
Excargodog
YOU are the one who doesn’t understand. I very much DO understand, and very much disagree. This is no different than holding innocents hostage. Might it work for your purposes? Perhaps sometimes. Does that make it right? No.
The pilots have more leverage than they have had in recent history. They don’t need to eat their young. In F9s defense - it’s a better deal for newbies than NK.
You are being more short-sighted than Mr Magoo. Would you rather have hotels provided for a few new hire classes or get hotel language added to the contract that permanently requires hotels for initial, upgrade, and RGS training? We pay the union a lot of money and they generally do a pretty darn good job of negotiating on our behalf especially when you consider who they are dealing with on the other side of the table. Why don’t we let the adults in the room handle this.