Originally Posted by
ancman
This is not your early 2010’s management team either.
Gumm is dead set on escaping his 23M7 cost dilemma at a discount. The idea that they’re going to buy it back at fair value, in the short term, is a stretch at best.
I don’t particularly like the idea of giving away our most valuable bargaining chip without achieving comprehensive gains either. If a two year deal is signed, then negotiations will reopen in less than one year. Management will have no incentive to do anything but stall, assuming auto accept has already been traded away.
I would rather have the current m7 fiasco and no new contract than a subpar new agreement. I will vote accordingly and I bet most here will too.
IMO one of the big leverages we have with renegotiating to end M7 is not just the cost but the labor it frees up. how many pilots are flying very little because they can get paid M7 pay without working? M7 goes away and most those pilots are probably back to flying full ish schedule quickly
time is on our side. If we can get a deal done quick that recognizes our goals then great. If HT and RG want to play hardball I am more than happy to wind the clock, and from the sound of it so is our MEC.