Originally Posted by
MinRest
I think you might be misunderstanding what I mean when I say bridge. The JCBA occurs with two ALPA mergers as part of the merger process, regardless of where either airline is in its CBA duration. It is a required part of merging two ALPA pilot groups together. This is not to mean that we just take less or do not care what sections that ARE open, are treated appropriately, and that we see gains there. I would urge you to go look at what sections are open for the JCBA. It seems like there are those that assume JCBA negotiations and CBA negotiations are the same thing. There is a reason we voted to move openers until after the JCBA is done.
This is NOT section 6 negotiations.
You can clamor around semantics as much as you like. This won’t change the reality that is painfully obvious to all of us who aren’t guzzling Kool Aid and constantly company cheerleading: This merger will set most of our careers back 5-10 years or longer and we will not help move things along without being adequately rewarded for this setback. Since you’ve already made an obtuse comment about compensation equalling pay only I’ll attempt to be clear. What that means for every individual is different however, for most of us it is a mix of QOL and pay.
Anyone who was 55 or older at the time of the merger announcement should be extremely skeptical about the opportunity to fly a widebody. Hopefully the 787 SEA base announcement made that very obvious. All AS pilots should be looking very hard at the very real threat of what happened in the last merger. The fleet remaining stagnant and our seniority going nowhere for another 5 years.