Originally Posted by
jtf560
NetJets has improved things twice since our last section 6 contract and we are working on a third time. Our gains have lead to your gains so that Flex can get and retain pilots. The times the company wanted to give us more money while still under the last contract did not stop us from getting more money. Do you honestly believe Flex would be paying what they do without the pilot shortage? That is the ONLY reason. Do you believe Ricci likes you and wants to give you more money because you don't have a union? He simply knows the cost to continue to get and retain pilots. He still isn't really retaining all the pilots since some are still leaving for NetJets and probably more are leaving for the airlines. Let me know how things work out when there isn't massive pilot demand.
Again, you are contradicting yourself...There is a pilot shortage, therefore, pay goes up, basic supply and demand economics we were taught in High School. Then you say "our gains have led to your gains", is it the pilot shortage or your gains? If you believe NJ is the center of the 135/91k market and pay at all operators is a function strictly of NJ, how do you fit your ego into your blazer? There are MANY pilots who are not represented by a union that is making WAY more money then they were in the past are you saying that is due to NJ? Do you believe NJ would be paying you what they are paying you IF THERE WAS NOT A PILOT SHORTAGE just because you have a union? SInce times are good for us (as in pilots) now, you have been able to go back to a well and get concessions (yes, the same concessions Flex has had to give to be comeptitive without a union). When times go bad, do you not think NJ is going to come back to the Union and ask for concessions?