Originally Posted by
vipereaglebus
So you want to use negotiating capital for something that can be achieved simply by not answering your phone (which you shouldn’t be doing anyway)? Bold move, Cotton.
Take a breath.
We've had federal rule changes that opened up all sorts of shti in our contract that we then had to pay a premium to fix. Metal in the market....Aer Lingus anyone?
It's not just a change to the base FAR language that could upturn the lives of reserve pilots. What happens if the definition of notification changes? I don’t expect to spend much more time on reserve in my remaining 8 years, so not my fight personally. This needs to be locked down now, or that's a HUGE risk foe our pilots in the future.
So YES I do want them to lock in that 'protection' while it's cheap to do so.
It also seems a lot of us want even more notification than FAR117 provides, along with later report times. How do you do that without expending negotiating capital?