Originally Posted by
Viper25
Sure there’s a few outlier weirdos that are more passionate about that than they should be.
But I doubt there’s more than a handful of people that SJS would affect how they vote on a contract. You’d really turn down a raise or QOL improvements (or add concessions) over the opportunity to fly a random airliner? Who gives a ****
Besides, the company is going to buy what it’s going to buy anyway.
Playing a little devils advocate,
Your points are valid, but I think there's a little more to the 787 order itself than just SJS. Everyone I hear excited about the potential order mostly talks about how we'd be replacing a narrowbody paying category (ER) with an all wide body paying aircraft, which would put more money in pilots pockets.
A lot different from, for example, replacing all 717's with 220's. I've heard about this from a flight ops dude doing a JS observation once. I don't think anyone remotely cares about this because its not a noticeable $gain$ for us.