Originally Posted by
Phlying Phallus
You heard it here first.
The readers digest condensed timeline:
Today - Spring 2010: nothing happens. Union infighting continues.
Spring: Management friendly pilots get voted in to power at APA.
Spring-Summer: Concessionaires whittle contractual demands down to 10 items and a 10% pay raise demand, citing the "fragile state" of the airline.
September : TA is reached. Final product is basically a reshuffling of our current bankruptcy style contract, a 5% raise, PBS, and "loosening of scope language" allowing 70-90 seat E-jets to Eagle. Vote passes by 69%.
Day after TA passes: AMR sends WARN letters to 2000 pilots.
30 days after WARN letters are sent out: Massive displacement announcement.
60 days after WARN letters sent out: AMR furloughs the first 200 pilots of the 2000 that will hit the street.
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The future has never looked brighter.
You American guys and gals have got to retain a strong scope language against outsourcing. Give up pay or work rules but do not budge one inch on the scope or you will end up like my fellow pilots and myself. Jobless while some regional flies your lines at dog food wages. We thought our language was strong and look what happen to us (Midwest). We were run out of town and replaced by lower cost, in some cases %70 lower wages, and less experienced crews who don't care about you or your career. Also, look at your "Code Share" language. That is how RAH got a foothold in Midwest and eventually took it over.
Good luck.
D.R.