Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
As I have said, most of the RJ flying terminates by 2020, and Pinnacle's new contract in 2022. Go look on the 10K. The number of RJ's gets paired down quite quickly in the latter half of the decade. To solve the issue, we just need to hold firm at a min, with a commitment from the company to not write new agreements, or modify or extend the existing ones. That alone solves the issue. These current RJ's are going to be obsolete when the new gen stuff like the C-Series arrives. The CASM on these RJ's will kill em.
A commitment as in a CEO/VP handshake whilst sipping brandy and backslapping in a golf cart at a country club, or a commitment as in put it in the CBA with strong language and no FM clause?
Even the UCAL guy's opener is what you describe. No one is suggesting that the company will agree to park 250+ large dual class RJ's by noon tomorrow, plus give us 65% raises in one year, plus free health care, plus reinstitute a fully funded non defaultable A plan, plus all the work rules we deserve plus all those that an aviating jailhouse lawyer can dream up.
However to get a glimpse at how hard it will be to get them to agree to do what you've described (and then to much less actually do it) we need look no further than the very agressive act of signing on fresh large dual class right under our noses, very very recently. They have no intention of ever reducing their outsourcing fantasy without the pilot group "paying for it" in their minds. I hope I'm wrong.