The 18% voted down a contract that has insane scheduling rules. Delay pay, 200% for not getting home on first legal deadhead, 150% reassignment pay.

After this ice storm, I’m hearing guys having 70 hour 4 days. Guys who were supposed to fly sea to lax going sea to las so their entire 20 hour pairing is now worth 30. They get back 18 hours later and tack on an additional 8 hours of delay pay making it 38. Contractual max is 14 hour duty day so they ask for a deadhead next day to get released and hop on another flight to get home extend the delay pay another 12 hours for 6 hours of pay for 44.

The devil is in the details.