After leaning yes, after the roadshow, I am now a decided yes.
1) Rates - I'm OK with them. The market settled where it settled. Do I wish the rates were higher? Yes. Pattern bargaining led us here... and we don't fly 757's, nor do we even fly 737-900's.
2) Retirement - industry leading. Hands down.
3) Retro - it was amazing to see how much retro everyone else got and how we compared. We're also getting NEC on all of our retro.
4) Disability - again, industry leading. Bar none. At what other airline do you have 60 days elimination period, top up your disability to 100% using your sick leave balance, get NEC on your MBE and on your sick leave on top of that. DJ basically pointed out that if one goes out with a good sick leave balance, you actually stand to put more in retirement bucks than you would as an active pilot. Mind blown...
5) LCO - we are a one aircraft type airline. Operation will go sideways. Listening to DO and SP explain this, I agree this will lead to some big TFP credits. I'm not convinced that the company will purposefully overhire just to avoid paying premium, but as Casey said - they're free to mismanage. That's on them, not us. I'll happily take their money and get mine.
6) One thing that many seem to overlook - our maximum days on reserve are now 15 days. It's 18 at OAL's. Anyone look at line construction vs. how many days off we get in comparison to OAL's? I'm happy with this.
7) Medical freedoms - I think Freedom Flyers screwed it up as they were uncoordinated. I don't think what's offered is bad. In any case, there are multiple ways around their concerns, and I don't see this anywhere remotely close to being worthy of tanking the TA. Not by a long shot. But some are angry over crew meals... can't please everybody.
One notable thing I appreciated was Jody saying how this TA was the result of years of multiple SEP processes, and this TA is the result of what we collectively asked for, not what they thought was the best for all of us. I think he's spot on.
Not everyone is gonna be happy. Some are never gonna be happy. Some are pretending to be unhappy and are looking for some higher moral ground. To some people, not having a crew meal is the same as not having disability, great... vote no.
This TA addressed everything that I indicated on every survey I've taken, and it put me at ease should I become disabled. Good enough for my yes vote.