Originally Posted by
texas1970
the company is screwed right now, see FlightAware cancellations yesterday and today, because they are critically understaffed, and part of their problem is the trip coverage process. In the long term, they can hire their way out of it, but in the short term, the only thing they can do to solve it is negotiate with us. Solving their problems now is a lot more valuable to them than solving them in the future, which means more value for us too. If the company doesn’t play ball with a VERY good, focused deal, then we can pursue normal negotiations.
I think this is exactly what’s driving this. Pilots are frustrated with the current trip coverage mess, but it does offer us enormous leverage. If ALPA believes we can extract YUGE gains to get a more orderly coverage process, I’m willing to listen.