Originally Posted by
TheBaron
Sorry...I must have fallen asleep during that class.
Why are we, once again, wasting negotiating capital to improve the financial lives of pilots senior enough to hold the 777 to the detriment of the rest of the group? The 777 isn't much bigger than the MD-11 and the flying will be relatively easy. If this does go to arbitration, we are toast. Take a gander at what other 777/747 pilots at the legacies get paid...that's what the arbitrator will do. 777 LOA is the wrong battle to be fighting IMHO.
Yea, that makes sense! [The heck with] the 777 pay rates because the senior guys will bid it. Wonder where you will be one day? Sitting in the 777 [complaining] about why your having to fly it for so little money.... Some of you guys amaze me with your short sightedness.....
There is more to the 777 than pay rates. The only thing the company can take to arbitration is the "Rate" not the rules. Therein lies our upper hand....