Originally Posted by
Sink r8
OK, fine. The last paragraph is a good place to start. It's a far cry from stating "every other fNWA pilot a fNWA has flown with has taken a paycut" under the new contract.
But with a lot of guys, that's exactly what happened. It happened to me, and I promise you I'm not lying. With the next hike in my pay rate, I'll be back to where I would be under the old NWA contract. Some senior guys have more than made up for it by doing the green slip thing and that's great. But a lot of us aren't at the top of the category to do that.
Originally Posted by
Sink r8
The gist of this had to do with Alfa's assertion that Moak steered us well out of BK, and that he couldn't find an airline that handled itself as well. I don't think it was a dig at NW...
I don't know if it was a dig either, it was just factually incorrect. Both groups were unified after BK, not just DAL. Both groups ended up with very similar contracts after BK. Post BK, the merger went relatively smoothly not because of the iconic status of one man - rather it was the relative sensibility of
both groups.
Originally Posted by
Sink r8
So let's step back a second... I think we can all stipulate both groups were unified...
And you would be correct. But alfa etal don't agree.
Originally Posted by
Sink r8
As to the question of which group was more effective pre-merger but post-BK, and which contract was better, I read both T/A's, and it looked to me like the NW group made much larger concessions in everything but the pension...
Then you didn't read closely enough. The total costs of the 2 post BK contracts were very close. DAL had higher pay rates, but with lower guarantees...etc. The 2 contracts were not very different from a cost point of view. Both sides took too many concessions. But then again, BK gave neither side very many good choices.
Carl