Originally Posted by
Powderkeg
Irrelevant.
If F9 and NK merge the new company needs the JCBA more than the pilots. There isn't a single F9 pilot I know that would agree to calling past-due contracts at places like Allegiant and Sun Country as our peer groups. Any concessions given away by NK won't be agreed to by the F9 group working under a 6+ year old CBA for a company that claims they are making (about to make) double digit margins.
Makes sense to me, and I hope that's how it would go down. If recent trends indicate anything, pilots should prevail by standing strong.
But I'm talking about mgt trying to lower the entry argument going into JCBA, by slashing the NK CBA, just to give you all a steeper hill to climb.
This could be significant: does either NK or F9 have an arbitration clause for JCBA? It would be in the scope language.
But all speculation aside, I too think it would be a bad idea for management to go after the CBA... retirements don't lie, the legacies will be hiring and massice retention/recruiting challenges won't help their restructure plans. I'm only even talking about it because Solo Han entered the chat. But they might be there for other work groups, who are mostly just commodites in the general job market with forklift drivers, Denny's waitresses, fast food techs, etc.