Originally Posted by
Tailhookah
The MBCBP is a win for everyone. Whether you participate now or later regardless of the minimum balance option being suggested. For those of you who were a UNA don’t forget that those so-called greedy pilots (who got pensions canceled or frozen) voted to not send you to the street without payment, that would’ve come out of their pockets. Instead during a period of unprecedented world strife and the unknown future of the airline industry those pilots didn’t want the UNA’s to suffer like they had personally did in the past (B scale, furlough in 90’s and post 9/11 where zero furlough pay was given). As far as min balance…. I’m sure there will never be a way to convince some of you, even if you were a UNA that sometimes some on the list benefit more than others. There are selfish people at all ages. And all seniority.
Some impressive revisionist history here. Nobody on property gave up anything to save the UNAs. Instead we got a lower TLV, positive space commuting, ARCOS batch size control, and ARCOS violation pay. You make it sound as if we took up a collection from our monthly pay to pay affected pilots their 30 hours a month.
There’s also no way to prove this, but I bet the vast majority of vocal min balance proponents now were the ones in 2020 saying “I had to go through it, so why shouldn’t you. It’s a tough industry.”