Originally Posted by
FangsF15
You might be surprised at how many senior bidders bid reserve by choice when the reserve is good enough to do so. It's good for all bidders when there is more choice for everyone. But more importantly, for every senior bidder that bids reserve, there is one more junior bidder who gets a line - not to mention that there are more trips available lower which enhances lineholder schedules. Frankly, I submit it's short-sighted NOT to improve reserve.
Again, not what I said. You can improve reserve all day long as long as you make it so lineholders aren’t filling in the gaps where that capacity evaporates. We don’t get reassigned as frequently as Delta and that has been a difference in the approach to our two contracts historically. Water under the bridge really as we will get stuck with whatever the ALPA wizards decide to release to the line proles. Under the Tumi debacle, we got a lot of “the company wouldn’t do that” when altering our lineholder protections. I expect that similar questions will come up during the TA roadshows and hope they have a better answer.