Wannabe:
Here's all the "improvements" contained in LOA2. Things in (xxx) are my own comments questions:
*Company coverage of costs for visas and other required credentials for pilots (Are they actually implying the pilot had to pay for that stuff before!?)
*Company coverage of costs and other required credentials required for the pilot’s family to live in the FDA region (See above comment!)
*Doubling of Orientation and Housing Search Service days (2 to 4)
*Additional Housing Search Service days (beyond 4) upon existence of extraordinary circumstances
*Purchase of additional Housing Search Service days (beyond 4) via the pilot’s Company credit card if not due to extraordinary circumstances
*Local hotel usage beyond thirty days (at Company expense) upon existence of extraordinary circumstances
*Four months of ongoing telephonic support provided as part of the housing assistance service (Like one guy said, 4 months of free Skype! Will they buy me a laptop to use it on?)
*Household goods shipment poundage limitation raised (500 to 1000 pounds) (This was already included in a previous FCIF)
*Deposit Assistance program with specific objective protections (Already included in previous FCIF)
*Company coverage of realtor’s fees (Again, are they joking? Does this imply that WE had to pay for the realtors fees before?)
*Greater choice in Return Household Goods Shipment location (all 1000lbs pounds of it...)
*Company coverage of cost associated with packing goods destined for storage and transportation of said goods to and from storage (You're telling me this is new? It's been in Section 6 forever.)
*Line of Credit Facilitation commitment (so they help me open a bank account at HSBC?)
*Early access to certain relocation benefits
*Holding Deposit Assistance
*Timing of Recurrent Training Pay/ Adjustments for FDA Assigned Pilots (Programmed and on line by August 2008 bid period) (SFS pilots have been complaining about this since ratification of the last contract, I guess it took the union a while to listen...)
*Ongoing Implementation Measures clause
*Habitation Tax coverage