Originally Posted by
TED74
The company had twice as many section 23 change proposals as we did…and our negotiators were following the lead of their constituents who have stated they wanted a comprehensive PWA scrub this round.
I know you honestly think we could have reached a quick deal with the company’s junior varsity negotiators in 2019 because you say it so frequently. But I am honestly curious if you have ever spoken with another human being who thinks the company would have signed an expeditious deal that pilots would have ratified?
The MEC set the expectations. Had they started with setting reasonable expectations and stated why they were reasonable yes I think a ratifiable contract by the amendable date was possible. I posted back when our conceptually opener was published it meant we were not going to see a TA for many years and when we did it would be for what we could have had upfront anyway. Turns out it’s going to be worse than that. Expectations sure have dropped like a stone in the last 6 months. I once posted I expected about 1 billion a year in contractual improvements. Looks like we will be lucky to get even that and will have lost a entire 3 year contract cycle. What a disaster for the pilot group going forward.