Originally Posted by
Biffsteritis
MM just confuses the issue surrounding the AQP LOA in his podcast. We do have leverage if we don’t agree to the LOA. The company has been, for the last few years, putting together the pieces for an AQP program and It will soon be ready for implementation. The pilots have to approve it via an LOA as it will change our current book (cba). We want it, they want it, but we don’t want to give it up for free.
Why does the company want AQP? It costs a ton of money to start up, but the future cost savings are huge! If we don’t agree to an LOA we block their cost savings. That’s the leverage. Give us some of the things we want and we’ll be open to AQP (even though we want it too).
I’d love to hear the counterpoint in the event I’m missing something.
Thats a good question for your rep. I can’t even answer it completely by just reading the agreement. They can carve out groundschool and involuntary displace for training now without a loa. I can guess it’s worth in the neighborhood of 20-30 million in cost savings annually best case for management. That’s assuming we can successfully argue they can’t train outside den.
Last edited by fcoolaiddrinker; 04-20-2026 at 05:59 PM.