Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
Settle down, francis.
I don't work for Pinnacle; the closest I came to it was riding in the 9E jumpseat many times between IND-PHL when I worked at Air Wisconsin.
I'm not saying that your TA isn't disappointing (haven't seen it), and yeah its detrimental to the industry as a whole that proposed payrates are less than those in a truly concessionary agreement from 2003 (especially when ARW 50 seat FOs have a higher hourly rate than the proposed 60+ seat 9E rates)...but the simple fact is that one cannot conceed that which they don't have.
If you make $70/hr and go to $68/hr, that is a concession. If you have 12 days off and go to 11 days off, that is a concession. If you loosen up scheduling language to the detriment of crewmembers, that is a concession.
Your TA and the details in it might not meet industry average, and it might not meet crewmember expectations, but neither of those make it concessionary if it improves on your current book.
But that's really all semantics; if you don't like it, vote the thing down in flames and lobby your colleagues to do the same thing.
It is all semantics and I'm basing this on a big picture view. If ALPA has no desire to raise the industry up then no, this is not a concessionary contract. If you're talking about this from an industry standpoint then taking a raise from $24 to $31/hour while the rest of the industry enjoys $35 then you've conceeded. So where's the sweet spot in this contract? What great thing did we gain? Yeah... we didn't. It's just pulling the anchor up a bit.
Hopefully it will go down in flames.
Sincerely,
Francis
