Originally Posted by
Rocketiii
The way I see this going down is the company backs down then tries to play scope vs jcba compensation. We (cal) had scope that was never challenged until this merger debacle. Now the merger goes through and our livelihoods are immediately attacked. The company is looking to attack something that they can trade. But we are not trading. We HAVE scope. We do not need to negotiate or trade for it. I hope the ual guys who do not have 70 seat protection will not take the 10 percent raise (20 or 30) and keep their current scope at the peril of losing the 50 seat protection cal has now. I see this as the play management is making. Just convince 51% that a pay raise is sufficient as they already have the 70 seaters. It's easy to accept the lack of scope in a new contract when you are on property and you don't have it anyway. Hopefully that doesn't happen on either side.
This is spot on. For the most part, I think he is an idiot, but there was an eye-opening report published a few months ago by Boyd, the guy who projects the direction of the airline business landscape. If you read his stuff, he makes a very good case that it is going to become far more expensive for majors to run things under the current Major/Regional system because the cost savings are nowhere near as much as they were for the past 20 years. For example, from the perspective of a SCUMBAG AIRLINE MANAGER, would it be cheaper to pay regional carriers who have a growing cancer of 10-15 year employees or to bring those routes back to mainline, re-hire the now unemployed regional pilots as new hires, and have them fly the same routes they were flying before but with a big pay cut and 2-3 weeks less vacation than they have now?
So, SCUMBAG MANAGEMENT is pulling this ruse to get everyone to believe they really want to continue the current set-up as is. What really is going on is the SCUMBAG MANAGEMENT is looking for a lesser JCBA in order to "surrender" something to mainline pilots that they already intend to surrender anyway. They want every mainline pilot to pay a price to head the industry in a direction that they (SCUMBAG MANAGEMENT) already know makes sense for industry to head.
Almost makes your head spin what a mind-**** this actually is.