Originally Posted by
Shaman
I cannot wait for the TA to come out as well so a select group of pilots and their representatives make it seem like our best and only option is to accept a contract that has less than industry leading pay, significant changes to current vacation policy, and a grab bag of other "efficiency improvements", because the alternative will be starting all over which they will say will drag on for years. Oh and they "fixed" retirement. This is almost like a forgone conclusion and Its pathetic!!!
This pilot group is the weakest I've ever seen in 30+ years of commercial flying.
Like UnusalAttitude said previously, I think this TA will be concessionary, not have leading hourly pay rates, but will fix the A Plan. This is not a NO in my book, it's a "HELL NO!" The previous three years had FedEx hitting revenues 50% higher than the pre-covid 1984 forecasted revenues. While our pax brethren we're receiving government loans and their companies were barely turning revenue we were working and earning our company billions more than forecasted. Yet, they were able to obtain non-concessionary contracts with solid financial gains. If this MEC approves a TA that doesn't even meet one of their three limited objectives, "industry leading hourly payrates," then it needs to be sent back by the pilots. As a post 2015 hire, I get the sense that it will be voted down. This is not the same crew force as the 2015 contract.
I've expressed to my representative that if the NC did not meet the MEC's contract objectives it needs to be sent back and if they won't do it then the crew force will. There is simply not enough pilots who are voting on retirement alone to pass a concessionary substandard TA this go around.