Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
Even with 20% raises your junior narrowbody Captains will be making less than regional Captains. Your widebody Captains will be making less than regional LCAs. And inflation makes a 20% raise DOS a less than 7% raise DOS based on inflation. There is obviously money to go around. Delta and United have a lot more leverage than American to make big gains because we simply aren’t as reliant on regionals. Time to use that leverage. Nothing less than 30% DOS.
Do you expect to see a 30% increase in rates plus all of the other stuff that people are demanding, or just TA1 but with more money? If you think that even in this market that we’re going to get 30% DOS + cost of living increases, eliminate the concessions in TA1, and significantly improve our current rules, just skip reading the next deal and vote no. 10% will probably get voted down, 20 would be better, but I’m expecting to see TA1 rolled back out with 15% DOS +5% increases, LCA’s paid by the trip, no scope gives, current book on reassignments, current book on reserve, and possibly a few other tweaks. More would obviously be better, but I highly doubt that the majority would vote to take over a year to start over. If TA2 has the changes that I listed, it wouldn’t be a landslide, but it would easily pass. I just hope it has a me too clause because once the training department is staffed, the company has little reason to return to the table.