Originally Posted by
BeatNavy
Voting yes allows 1F7 relief such that jetblue gets revenue from capacity purchase agreement RJ flying by American. It’s literally selling scope for a decade or more. It’s a way around a direct capacity purchase agreement where jetblue still makes money for zero cost.
And if you think 1F7 is a foregone conclusion to go to the company, even if that’s gone in arbitration, 1F8 will 99.9969% go to the pilot group, and at least the FC to FC and FC to international would be preserved.
I just don’t see how anyone, especially our union leadership, is ok selling scope for a decade for a 3% raise we’d get anyway, and then saying with a straight face that it’s limited and narrow relief.
The Arbiter has signaled pretty clearly that 1F7 is gone. That was LOA 12. So we are really voting on whether to not to give relief under 1F8. That's 9 routes. At least that's how I see it. Especially considering the Arbiter took the rather unusual step of mediating a settlement after the arbitration was closed.