Originally Posted by
The Walrus
I'm a little confused. When we brought on the Airbus, and the MD11 and the MD10, why didn't we hear all of this about the people that bid it? Was there already a separate pay rate established by contract for these aircraft, or was it just assumed that they were wide body playing aircraft?
Because we got duped...
How much negotiating capital did we use up negotiating a payrate for the A380? What could we have gotten 'extra' in our contract if we just rolled over and said that the A380 could be paid at widebody rates?
So now we gave up something for 4 pages in the contract that we can just throw out. Then the company brings on the 777 and pays it at WB rates, and the only leverage we have to get the ULR payrates we negotiated for is for people to stand firm and not bid the 777... but they did, so essentially gave the company something for nothing.