Originally Posted by
TankerDriver
Their argument for a lot of stuff was, "Be careful what you wish for.". Like the extra day off for reserves argument. Apparently Delta and United don't have an 85 hr max limit on reserves. They use FAR max. Our 85 hr max essentially means we can't be used more than 16 days per month, so we're already getting at least 14-15 days off. Of course those are days that can't be pre-bid, but they are days off in the end. There were numerous items that were worse than what we have at DAL and UAL and the company said, OK, you can have that, but then you get all of DAL/UAL's contract and not just the good parts. I am not defending APA and will be one of the first in line to vote for ALPA when and if that time comes.
This right here. Also, DAL’s pairing construction limits (worse than what we have proposed). AA said we could have 10 hour max scheduled FDP, but then that would force them to just create longer trips, something the majority here don’t want. It’s not clear that DAL and UAL won’t do exactly that when their 10 hour FDP provisions get fully implemented.