Originally Posted by
Justabusdriver1
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.
Those cost are eventually agreed to by the company and the union to get to an AIP. Certain items will also affect other airlines differently based on other sections of their contracts and respective airline operations. It’s not as simple as cherry-picking parts of every contract out there and demanding that. The cost of certain items will vary between carriers. If Delta adds X, or takes away Y, the cost of doing the same at another airline could be very different without also factoring in all of the other sections and airline operations.
The one thing that I am confident in….. we could get industry leading in every possible way but lose the dry cleaning allowance and APC would go on for pages about how the agreement is a concession.