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1) Safety issue. Should be dealt with by your union safety committee.
Bottom line, why is it the only time AA taxis no faster than a baby can crawl is during contract negotiations? Do the procedures change? Remember, you brought up the safety issue.
Our last contract at AA was 1997. We were about to settle on a contract in 2001. We voted NO on a match in DL or UA on Aug 31, 2001. We never got that 2000 contract. In 2003 we took a 23.5% pay cut gutted our vacation and changed our sick policies and training credit. All vacation since 2003 in minimized versus extra time off. Lines are built to 78 hours. No pay protection. Any or all trips canceled for any and all reasons are unpaid. Only the last trip of the month is pay protected for MX cancel only.
Our 2003 contract to save AA from declaring BK saved AA 660M a year.
It's possible to call our 2003 "save AA from BK" a contract. I guess it is.
In my opinion we've been in contract negotiations since before 2000.
There's other details. S80 brakes suck! Early 757 brakes are very very very very grabby.
I only flew the 737-800 for 2 months. I liked it and the brakes if I remember were good.
just a little background info. There's more, we used to call it the Crandall crawl.