Originally Posted by
onedolla
A lot of people said that about the last contract(s) too and look where we are. I’ll hope for everything on this wishlists going around, but I sure won’t be surprised seeing another result that targets the “we’ll be leaving money on the table if we don’t pass this” group.
It’s still a youngish pilot group (both groups) which means you have very potentially mobile FOs but those who intend to stay will be here for the long haul. That gives the pilot group a lot of negotiating leverage. Older pilots tend to be sort of trapped here with little time to recoup losses in the time they have left and little ability to do any better if they go. The secret, I guess, is to not negotiate that away. I say that because I’ve been watching the UA progress with the Tumi TA debacle. They wound up having to recall and replace a bunch of folks before their MEC and NC got sufficiently aggressive to take a long term view.