Originally Posted by
5millionaire
Im all about looking at details. I understand a holistic contract concept. There are other parts of DALs contract that beat ours, ahem, profit sharing and cash over cap.
I’m again, playing devils advocate. Why be part of ALPA if we are just helping all the other carriers? Why not form a union for us and Brown?
Also, I’m not against getting a contract right now. I’m posing the question.
They are good questions and hopefully I had some valuable answers. As others have said if we get a great contract it floats all boats. The FDX contract in 2015 did just that. It didn’t get the retirement piece solved but at the time it crushed everyone else’s pay to include work rules and soft pay. We are still industry top in vacation and retirement (probably now tied with brown on retirement depending on age).
Remember cash over cap only comes in to play if you exceed the cap. If most of your career is spent in a narrow body airplane and you don’t exceed or marginally exceed the cap what value is it? Does this force you to work harder to try to achieve a benefit? Profit sharing is only as good as the companies profit. How about guaranteed money instead of variable money based on things you don’t control? Covid and a digression in the economy are proving tough on any value to profit sharing for years.