Originally Posted by
MaxKts
Sounds like that is what you are suggesting right here
Why should any particular pilot (AC) group take a backseat to any other group? The contract sets the minimum bid period guarantee at 68/85. Everyone should be making that at the minimum.
Buying up lines to the minimum when we are fat in a particular group is the same as paying draft when we are short in a particular group. It is just the cost of doing business. When profits become negative (ie the company is actually loosing money) I will start to worry, until then they are just trying to see how cheap they can get us to go (like the FDA LOA).
The only way to go below 68/85 is to announce they are going to furlough. I dont think we are anywhere near that yet.
I hope you're right about the only way to go below 68/85 is announcing a furlough - I'm not so sure the Union lawyers see it that way. The wording of that one sentence and the definition of the word "minimum" as in reduced to a minimum - has kicked ALPA's lawyers' butts.