Originally Posted by
Powderkeg
A concession implies giving something up without gaining anything else. Assuming you’re talking about swap/drop etc, they didn’t ask for a concession. They asked to bring us in line with the rest of the industry. Which is also what we are asking for in regards to pay and benefits. We can either accept industry standard pay and industry standard scheduling flexibility (or lack thereof) or accept less somewhere else to keep our flexibility. I’m not being a company sympathizer or Debbie-Downer but this is how a mediator is going to look at it.
Valid points. For what it’s worth, IF I had to choose, I’d keep the flexibility. There are so many people here who have never flown 121 before that I’m nervous we may end up going to an industry standard reserve-based drop/swap (aka: DENIED). I’d personally prefer to keep our flexibility even if it came with a lower hourly rate. I don’t believe that it is as much of an issue as they make it out to be though. Until lately (due to all of the premium flying) when a pilot dropped a trip into open time it was sucked up within 30 seconds (yes literally).