Originally Posted by
TBucket
I'd be careful thinking he "can't" run it as a separate airline due to the contract... Ours said the same thing when Gojets was started... There are a multitude of legal loopholes one can jump through to prove that the company is "separate"... One more layer of holding companies and subsidiaries, and they'll be all set...
He already tried it when they started republic. There was a 97 percent strike authorization vote, and if he tries it again. I bet we get somewhere in the neighborhood of 97 percent again. And the gojet deal was a three way CF between DM, RL and ALPA. It could have been handled better on all ends. And our scope clause in our contract is pretty solid, they can find all loopholes and prove its a seperate company but our contract will hold against all of his trickery........... except if he sells 51% ( not gonna happen)
If there is one thing you can learn from BB and WHs good cop/bad cop routine, they always throw out the scare tactics, especially during growth/negotiations. He says hes going to sell 51 percent of F9. But he would be a fool to do so, many reasons already on this thread. If he wants to sell the majority stake by all means go ahead. We as the pilots of RAH would be right where we were before all this fiasco started. Hes just bluffing. He wouldnt throw away 150 million and buy an airline just to sell it off to get around some training costs.
ONE COMPANY, ONE LIST, ONE CONTRACT! If you think our current contractual rates are low now, wait until he offers all the 170 and 190 flying to Lynx at 50 percent RAH rates. Then the bar is set even lower. If there is one thing any airline pilot has learned in the past 25 years. SCOPE is gold, and never give it up for anything.