Originally Posted by
notEnuf
It was addressed and full implementation is 2 more years away. with real time ALPA access and reroute pay going away they will pay more for mishandling scheduling. They (management) know this and are trying to get easy relief early before it becomes an obvious cost increase, and more expensive to negotiate.
This. The longer this goes on, the more the company will need to offer us to solve the problem. They will try to get out of this early and inexpensively.
I recognize that many pilots believe they’ve been personally wronged by the company’s overuse of 23M7. I tend to agree with all of them. However, the company will encourage those pilots to direct their frustration to the MEC and demand immediate batch size relief. By framing it as a pilot problem, not a management problem, they can try to recruit pilots to assist their cause of obtaining cheap relief.
As frustrated as many pilots are, we need to recognize that the pilot group has the upper hand here. Any negotiations that take place should reflect that.