Originally Posted by
dsevo
Another OAL know-it-all with wrong info. Profit sharing is pensionable. Sit pay is over 2 hours “scheduled” on UAL AIP, exactly like AA current sit pay. AA new sit will be actual, which is an improvement to current book IMO. Also UAL is 1:3 DOS, AA is and remains 1:2. I prefer AA AIP sick to either of the other two. AA LTD is no question industry leading, why didn’t UAL pattern off of that and improve?
My point, this whining about pattern bargaining on pay rates is retarded. Go away. We certainly have our own **** to work out, but I still wouldn’t trade spots.
How is our sick better than UAL/DAL? AA paying up to $200K out at retirement IF you're able to build up a bank of that size?
The payout at retirement is the only thing better in our TA in regards to sick. Given the amount of 25 hour 4 days there are in the system, 2 sick calls wipe out your annual accrual pretty much and getting sick twice a year is NOT unreasonable. It's great that we got that perk, but everything else about our sick rules is punitive.
I'm a likely yes on this TA, but sorry sick is the biggest negatives on it. Even worse now that UAL got 6 hours accrual plus ESB and we are still stuck at 5 hours and calling out on the wrong trips burn the majority of our annual accrual because there is no way to stop burning sick or fly it back like UAL/DAL have the ability to do.