Originally Posted by
HornetFDX
Exactly right. Pure business = pure cost-cutting, the real reason for 4A2B. They could bring the HKG 300 BLGs down and the MEM 300 BLGs up by doing SIBA, but of course they won't because it is cheaper to do what they are doing.
This should be huge ammunition for arbitration, but I'm not holding my breath.
I can't believe the MEC allowed this. Any reduction in BLG should have been coupled with a cap. Otherwise it isn't a tool to prevent furloughs at all, it merely becomes a tool of management to reduce costs and further divide the pilot group. What were they thinking????