Originally Posted by
akulahunter
Other than agreeing with Marg (SMH) about the whole, whopping 25 people being woefully inadequate to judge the pilot group (hint, about 300 would be needed to ensure a representative sample), the biggest problem with what you said is that the company refuses to do any of the things you listed. Specifically, they have been adamant about not guaranteeing any percentage of day trips AND they have been just as adamant about not giving the pilots LTD. I'll ignore the fact that the other issues you mentioned (i.e. Min Day) are pretty significant for a large portion of the airline, but the ones that YOU said were YOUR most important items are things the company refuses to move on. In the words of our fearless leader "Come on Maaan!"
You and your 25 buddies need to schedule another lunch with Uncle M and let him know nothing is going forward without LTD and some rules that make this place livable.
To be fair though, I don't think they will go away from the day trips (at least not to a significant extent). That would be the one thing that would actually cause people to get off of their rears and head for the door. There can't be more than 100-200 pilots here that would stay if we went to 4-5 day trips.
I agree its ridiculous that management isn't agreeing to any of the things that actually matter - no disagreement here. No contract even gets voted without some LTD.
I'm not saying my 25 pilots were a representative sample, but you sure as hell don't need a third of the population to respond for a poll to be representative. Pollsters frequently sample less than 1-2% of a population and get incredible results - so long as the people being sampled are representative. I admit that the 25 ppl i spoke with are not representative of the entire group, but I am telling none of them are worried about a TAFB rig, or duty rig, unstack, etc. what they want is security of the day trips and the bases they are living in. Forcing MG to agree to a min % of day trips would provide some of that security (not all of it).