Originally Posted by
ancman
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.
the problem is we are the ones that asked for and got these ridiculously low batch sizes in the first place. I dunno why ALPA had to cut back so much. There should have been some serious discussion and testing prior to cutting them back so much. Simple math would tell you that a batch of 1 and 5 will not work in massive categories