Originally Posted by
tom14cat14
I was a sure yes vote the first time i read the summary now i am undecided. I will have to go to the road shows and talk to a rep about a few things now. I really dont see what XJ is gaining by this. Minor raise a few good things in work rules and 9L planes. We just secured our own flying we might be able to get all our saabs back if we stay separate. 9L has no protection they could shift all that flying to XJ and shut them down. I am just not sure if XJ should take basically the same contract. I thought negotiations were supposed to make our contract batter? For XJ it really doesn't. I understand for the greater good of the 3 companies this is good but for our MEC to pass this I am not sure it is in the best interest for XJ pilots. For as much as they said management wants this done it really is not that great. (AT least from an XJ pilot stand point)
First of all, I dont think for one second that we got the flying on our own. Its pretty obvious that we got that flying because of our association with colgan and the company assuming there will be an SLI soon. We are just so overstaffed its easier to let us staff it.
Second of all did I read that right that you think that pinnacle corp would shift the colgan flying to us if we stayed separate? If anything it would be the other way around.
No matter if you think we are just getting small gains in this contract, a gain is a gain. I honestly think we are stronger together than separate.