Originally Posted by IflyAeroPlanes

I really don’t understand DALPAs want to get a quick deal. We have SOOO many outstanding issues and grievances. They continue to redefine our contract almost weekly. I wouldn’t take a 30% raise if it didn’t include solving most of our outstanding grievances and issues where we are at a disagreement on.

Our chances of having them go in our favor are very low with the arbitration process (for a multitude of reasons I’m sure). The leverage we have currently is the ONLY way we get most of these issues solved in our favor. That will absolutely take time to iron out with the company (with iron clad plain English language and tons of examples in our PWA). There is no way it gets solved in a few weeks of negotiations.

I think the MEC could be in for a rude awakening if this narrow scope deal isn’t an absolute home run. While I don’t think this MEC group is anywhere near the TA1 crowd… I do think many in ALPA get pretty out of touch with being a regular line pilot. We will see. I doubt the company will even play ball and we will pivot to the long game anyway.