Originally Posted by
Hedley
No, I’ve just been down this road a few times. Delta didn’t get all that they wanted, and we won’t either. Parts of our next deal will be industry leading, parts won’t, but to think that we’ll get a deal that exceeds American and Delta in every possible way is foolish. The total package will contain significant improvements in all sections, just not everything that we would like. The cutoff will be total cost. We are simply not going to get a deal, with or without mediation, that far exceeds American and Delta in total cost. We will get one that will be on par with or slightly more. How we allocate those cost between the sections is up to our negotiating committee and MEC.
except these companies can arbitrarily assign a cost to any provision. It’s not something like retirement, hard or soft pay that have actual quantifiable value. It’s the qol items, short call conversion, airport standby etc that they just make up a value to either have it or get rid of it. UAL can and may very well put an exorbitant cost on those old rules.