Originally Posted by tom14cat14

Have read a lot of comments but gave up reading all of them in the 3 different threads about this TA. From what i read it seams like people are saying dont worry about what 9l guys thinks because we can pass it with out them and but most will take it anyways because if the huge pay increases. I am wondering what about us Mesaba guys. Are we all assuming that XJ pilots will just accept this because we are loosing our Saabs? For me I am going to see 30 a month decrease in insurance but an increase in max out of pocket and a slight decrease in deductible. I will see a very minor pay increase. I am thinking when this SLI comes out I will have a large portion of the 9L 3-4 year guys ahead because they are already captains or close to it. So i am gaining very little to allow a bunch ahead of me. (Other then their aircraft) As we have just seen PNCL Corp just got flying for 9 of our saabs. So does this mean they will keep trying to find flying for xj even if we dont combine the 3 companies? My thoughts after seeing this is that if we vote this down they are still going to find flying for XJ even if we cost more then 9l could that mean that they would just shift 9l flying to xj and come up with a CBA for just 9e and XJ and sjut down 9l ad give those planes to XJ. Not sure if they could do it this way but maybe XJ is not a sure yes vote on this. It would be very ugly if we did it this way and i hope we dont come to something like that. (disclaimer did not have to to proof read what i just wrote the baby is crying)