Originally Posted by Biffsteritis

The company cannot implement AQP without the LOA because they don’t have the sim capability in Denver. The only training allowed outside of Denver is for new hires. The AQP LOA offers significant cost savings to the company: flexibility to lease sims outside of Denver, no hotels during recurrent training, no deadheads, no per diem, no transportation cost. They can hire in-base instructors. Again, no DH pay and no hotel pay, no per diem.

If you’re a commuter it’s not a great deal.

I agree with you that the leverage won’t get us any kind of immediate pay bump, but I do believe that issues like these can speed up our timeline to a new contract. And don’t get me wrong, I want AQP, but I also don’t want to continue giving things away if they can be used for our benefit.