Originally Posted by
Sniper
The only entity that's really told AA management "give us unlimited on ALL your flights, or go pound sand" is the folks at Southwest. They're the largest domestic airline, so they have a bigger stick than anyone else, and their management was swinging the stick with SWAPA, not just SWAPA.
Is it even reasonable to ask APA and the AA pilots to take concessions to get unlimited for off-line?
It's hard to sell concessions for off-line jumpseats to everyone with the pitch "well, everyone else reciprocates with us, so we should do it out of principle". I believe the AA Flight Attendants are not exactly being helpful on unlimited off-line pilot access to all AA flights either .
SWA probably carries more than 50% of AA's commuters, so that's a reasonable request.
No, it isn't reasonable to ask AA/APA to take concessions to get unlimited for off-line. But, it should be contractual in Section 6 if necessary.
F/As can enjoy the same benefit that we do---all they have to do is go out and get their pilot's license and become employed by an airline.