Originally Posted by
Lone Palm
I suspect the company tries to get the union to agree to dual qual. Secondly, Jayray that's the seniority system and how it works. For the last year and change the guys still on the Saab have been making less and dealing with drastically worse schedules because of the Saabs going away; the guys/gals on the jets have artificially enjoyed better pay and schedules due to the different fleet types. Overall the split of the FO scales is better for us as a whole and your seniority will dictate what you can bid as it always has.
I can promise you dual qual is coming. They made us agree to it before they gave us ta1. Whats worse is the pilot group was supposed to vote on the contract and then magically after the contract passes there was going to be an LOA on dual qual. There has to be a reason they wanted us to vote on that contract without us seeing the dual qual language they wanted. Fortunately the ta didn't pass. Unfortunately we never got a chance to see how they wanted to run dual qual. It would have been nice to get an idea of what we will be seeing when this next ta comes around.