Originally Posted by Half wing

You are 100% correct. Kirby does not give a crap about the employees/pilots, all he cares about is the bottom line and his own pockets. Kirby is not Oscar that is for sure.

Regarding AA’s AIP… That helps us and could hurt us. Helps because it puts more pressure on our greedy CEO but hurts because AA’s deal probably won’t help our negotiating position. Friends at AA say Captains they fly with are an automatic yes vote if they get Delta rates. Would be interesting if UA came out with a better TA while AA was voting on theirs like they did to us. Kirby would do that because it would force AA’s TA to fail and eventually cause their deal to be more expensive than ours. Another way to play this if I was Kirby would be to keep slow rolling us and try to say look, “American agreed to a contract that has terrible work rules.” That would work for about 5 more months then Kirby is out of time. We will have our AIP most likely by Halloween and it will be better that American’s contract but not as good as Delta’s.