Originally Posted by mulcher

Sent to me from someone who had SWAPA insider on the JS.

Yes, he shared a few things:
1) the aip’d reserve section is good and will be sought after (no fine details)
2) Watterson says they’re not concerned about cost of the contract, but must maintain their “flexibility”. Recently stated. SWAPA like WTF?! Since when?? Not acting like that…
3) Payrates: latest numbers are to the penny matching 737 rates of American’s offer; also he said there’s a lot of chatter on social media about our members voting no if we don’t get widebody rates- he says that’s not realistic & don’t expect that. A321 neo/757 rates more realistic.
4) Flight ops remains clueless and disfunctional, BJ is deer in the headlights (Gary still in charge), SWAPA is increasing pressure to try to remove the SW board members (institutional investors, etc). Watterson’s really the only guy who knows what’s up, but held back by SW BOD, in his opinion.
5) Sick leave- non starter on limiting yearly accruals, says we need at least 130/yr to be workable, as long as other disability provisions are sufficient. SW says they’re concerned about all the sick leave liability currently on the books (billions- if everyone called in sick till 0 time), so they want to restrict the top out for use/buyback (if I understand it correctly).
6) Negotiating- supposedly also doing sidebar negotiations outside of mediation in DAL using more SME’s going forward, but today’s announcement probably changes that.