Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
Besides the fact that isn’t at all the timeline of how things go…
Lots of out of cycle LOAs get done.
And sorry but a 1% bump on DC and JBLU current rates AINT gonna get anything done.
Au contraire. It’s a $20-$30 thousand a year increase for most NK pilots. That ain’t nothing.
How about we raise the bar above JBLU and they can try to do the same with their section 6 and then when we do get to a JCBA, we can raise it again?
I’m all for it if you can get that done cinco, how do you suggest we do that?
And truthfully, what I’m MORE afraid of is that if NK doesn’t get an increase and goes into the JCBA under the current contract, NK will be the one dragging the JCBA down, because whatever payscale the JCBA offers would be $20-30 thousand MORE of an improvement for the NK voters than for the B6 voters quite likely making the NK pilots MORE LIKELY THAN THE B6 pilots to vote for a JCBA that was less than we might have otherwise gotten. It would be preferable for the NK pilots to be getting B6 payscales (or better if you’ve got a plan for that) six months or so before the JCBA vote, so it will have time to become the new baseline for NK pilots.
Not to mention it would be nice to get retention up to where NK can resume upgrades again sometime before the JCBA, especially considering the DOH hire issues between the two groups.