Originally Posted by aceinthesky1

where do I begin…i will try to be as honest without throwing the union under the bus.
no real movement on the contract, the company is stonewalling but nothing is being done to hold them accountable except holding contract meetings all over the country in an effort to frustrate management.

one of the first questions was to address operations and what is being done to fix it. Arriving to an airport, no gates available, no ramp crew, no gate agents, no one at ops answering the radio or responding on acars, etc. operating in hot environments with no apu, hot ground air, and the pilots being blamed for being late.

The response was that the company has been made aware of these things, but nothing is being done to fix it. What is the union doing?

Another issue that came up was the day trips. The Flight Attendants union has filed a suit with respect to contractual work rules. The question was why hasn’t ALPA filed a suit for the pilots? Answer: we don’t want to waste resources on a frivolous suite that will probably get thrown out anyways. ‘Not word for word’ but you get the message.

Boasted about the turn out for the townhall. 147 out of 2145 pilots were on. So…

boast about how many open grievances we have. 1700 ish, most in the US.
Earned approx $75 million on the last contract for grievances. About $55,000 per pilot. Not sure what relevance that has for the next contract, but there you go.

No real confidence that a new contract will come anytime soon.