Originally Posted by
Vsop
You bring up great points that are to me big issues with this TA. I can’t find it, but ALPA had an illustration showing how each time we lowered the floor the company found a way to fly just the floor and no more. 80% of 2019 is not enough.
I think the theater floors are meant to make sure no one particular theater loses substantial bid packet layovers. Because of the exchange of all the other agreements for one global agreement, the company gains flexibility on how they deploy DL WB metal. We gain 1:1 growth (amongst other things).
If all the theaters dropped to the floors simultaneously, it doesn’t mean management weaseled out of the agreement. It means a 9/11 or Covid: the foreign airlines would have had to drop substantially too.
I think the practical working of the theater floors *could* more play out with one theater much higher DL metal than our partners. This puts a limit of how much flexibility we give them with layovers.
EX: Atlantic DL metal 120%, Pacific DL 80%, SA DL 110%