Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I voted against TA1 and voted for TA2. I posted at the time however that the extra year was a significant concession. Because of how the RLA functions and their concept of the zone of reasonableness short ontime contracts are by far the best way to improve both pay and QOL. We seem as a group to have to relearn this lesson over and over.
Sailing, agree that the extra year was a concession, but one that was dwarfed by the massive concessions in TA1. Short ontime contracts are great all things equal, but not if they are as negative for the pilot group as TA1 was.