Originally Posted by
sailingfun
At what point will you decide the grand slam strategy is not working? When we are talking about missing two contract cycles? I thought a modest 8,4,4 contract with a 18% DC and modest work rule improvements on time would have been a good deal for the pilot group. My ask would have been a bit higher had I known the inflation numbers. To bridge that gap as you state if this contract is 3 years long we are going to need around 40% total increases over the 3 years. Have you seen the results for other airlines so far? When do you see us getting that contract?
If the union believes the ask was correct we are going to need to start retro pay as of 31 Jan 19 at over 20%? Do you see that happening?
Once again,
with 20/20 hindsight I would concede that would have been a wise move. I mean, If I had bought Bitcoin at a penny, I'd be a Billionaire!!! Or the lottery, or... Absolutely
no one in the entire world saw the Mother of All Black Swans (MoABS)™ coming when we exchanged openers in 2019. No, I do not believe taking industry lagging raises (when the company is printing $6B annually) just to get something "on the books" is a wise strategy in general terms.
But no, I do not see the DOS % being Retro back to 1/1/20. But I
do expect at LEAST inflation adjusted Retro back to 1/1/20.
Originally Posted by
tunes
Tell me you haven't seen the polling without telling me you haven't seen the polling
Or talked to a Rep. Or gone to a LEC meeting. Or...