Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
In the next contract, we expect to add more money into our total compensation, but eventually that increase in total compensation will be a finite amount. If we spend a bunch of that money on making reserve commuter friendly, then there will be a lot less to add to pay rates, vacation, retirement or anything else you want. That is where the pilot group and by proxy the MEC will have to make hard choices.
Why do you assume that improved commuting has to be contractual and bought and paid for? Both JS booking windows and Call in Honest can be improvements that improve the Co, bottom line AND pilot QOL, the proverbial win-win.
Bad old NWA where we fought over everything with management came to that conclusion and we had better JS as policy and Call-In Honest as a side letter (?) with neither costing us anything somewhere else.
With as often as I have heard that we work better with DAL management than the old NWA, you think this would be an easy fix, however reading the comments here I think the attitude of some of our own pilots is a bigger impediment to improved commuting policies than management.