Originally Posted by
rickair7777
It's possible.
AS definitely shuffled some mainland-HI flying around, and some AS pilots were really unhappy when their long OGG layovers turned into short GEG layovers.
Long-term, all the HI flying will be on HA branded airplanes, but for now they don't really care about the paint job. The company can do anything they want with paint and branding... some HA aircraft now have an AS paint job.
The TPA protections we got were on total block hours IIRC... the company can and did shuffle block hours amongst the bases, as long as it stayed with the original pilot group. They're also opening and shrinking bases pre-JCBA/SLI.
Well you bring up a good point about TPA and that will be another battleground for us. I spoke to one of our Eboard members and they were clueless that you actually negotiate these provisions and they are still operating on the idea that IBT will just be the de facto representation since G4 is larger. I haven’t had any experience with TPA negotiations under separate representational groups but both unions will have to sit down and figure this out prior to the SOC or I doubt it’ll happen (the TPA).