APA Fails to Raise the Bar
#111
Ooooooooh.... this definitely changes things. I was a no vote regardless. I've paid $1,800 in union dues already this year to APA for something ALPA gave us. I'm a little ticked and so should everyone else be. We'd still be at 6 or 12% pay raises right now with a bunch of people ready to hit the "yes" button.
The 10 hour duty pay is not a rig. It pays no matter what, and is not offset by anything. For reserves, it's above guarantee.
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There are some things that are easy to cut and paste, but the details are really, really important. For instance, "hey, let's have a self-directed MBCBP!", but MBCB plans cannot be self-directed. That's the whole point, is that it is a defined benefit plan, which gives you access to a different set of limits than DC plans. But DB plans cannot be directed by the recipient, they must be professionally managed. It took DALPA almost 3 years of work with professional finance houses to put together theirs. It's not something you pull off the shelf.
The 10 hour duty pay is not a rig. It pays no matter what, and is not offset by anything. For reserves, it's above guarantee.
The 10 hour duty pay is not a rig. It pays no matter what, and is not offset by anything. For reserves, it's above guarantee.
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Ok so the point remains the same…would you advocate to forgo the existing TA proposed pairing limitations in exchange for 10 hour FDP, and then theoretically go to DAL trip construction limits (minimal and yet TBD on how they will change even further with 10 hour FDP)?
All I’m saying, is APA negotiators considered that and decided no to that question for the good of AA pilots. I’m not defending them or advocating either way. But generally speaking, I think I would be in favor of contractual trip construction limits instead of the 10 hour FDP. Enough of my trips just don’t go over that and it’s just not enough of a pain point for me to say, “yeah, give me that limitation with the possibility of a lot more longer trips.”
All I’m saying, is APA negotiators considered that and decided no to that question for the good of AA pilots. I’m not defending them or advocating either way. But generally speaking, I think I would be in favor of contractual trip construction limits instead of the 10 hour FDP. Enough of my trips just don’t go over that and it’s just not enough of a pain point for me to say, “yeah, give me that limitation with the possibility of a lot more longer trips.”
UAL has sequence limits and the 10 hour duty.
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#116
This isn't exactly accurate. It is true that reserves are able to go to the ALV+15, but only if they grab you while you're below the reserve guarantee. The reserve guarantee is the ALV minus 2. Once you reach your reserve guarantee, you are "Full" have have no further obligation to the company. For example, if you have 65 hours for the month, and the reserve guarantee is 74 (76 ALV minus 2). You fly a 2 day trip worth 10:30, and that brings you to 75:30 for the month. You are now over your guarantee, so you are done for the month. OTOH, if you flew a one day trip for 5:15, you'd now be 70:15, you could still be assigned a trip all the way up to the ALV+15 depending on the days of availability you have left.
Many pilots attempt to fill up at the beginning of the month so they fill up before they run out of days of availability. This is something reserves can preference for trip coverage.
Many pilots attempt to fill up at the beginning of the month so they fill up before they run out of days of availability. This is something reserves can preference for trip coverage.
Also, DL cannot give you any trip which exceeds your remaining days on call - so in the above example, just because you are 3:45 short of being “Full”, doesn’t mean you can fly another 20ish hours if you don’t have 4 consecutive days of reserve remaining. If you only have 1 day remaining, you still can only fly that one day for a couple hours “over”. Since the maximum Reserve Guarantee is 80 hours, it’s actually really hard to exceed 85 via trip assignments, even if you want to.
I could MAYBE stretch my brain a little and say we matched DAL. Not sure I could get there but it isn't unreasonable. To say we matched UAL is simply not true. Period. APA's email after UAL's AIP had 23 bullet points that they considered industry standard. We achieved 4 of them from our most recent talks. These are not industry leading items they are industry standard. We can't even get to industry standard other than pay rates or other pay related items.
The townhall last night was embarrassing. APA is a peewee town league team playing against the KC Chiefs at the negotiating table. Run over and trampled on.
Edit: There a multiple unchanged items from UAL, DAL, AA that AA will remain industry trailing. Things that UAL and DAL already had but didn't improved in their most recent bargaining. Hotels, etc.
The townhall last night was embarrassing. APA is a peewee town league team playing against the KC Chiefs at the negotiating table. Run over and trampled on.
Edit: There a multiple unchanged items from UAL, DAL, AA that AA will remain industry trailing. Things that UAL and DAL already had but didn't improved in their most recent bargaining. Hotels, etc.
FYI, DL is the same. No more than one calendar day past original footprint
#117
Let's say you get rerouted on just your last day (with all the restrictions that go with that), you're making 150%. If they also take you outside your original release by 4 hours or more (non-ocean crossing), you're going to get an extra 100% for the entire last duty period. If they take you into the next day, that's two duty periods with 100% premium. So, essentially 100% for what you do, 50% for the non-original legs, and an extra 100% for the last duty period(s).
250% pay on the days you get in late and fly an extra day. Release after midnight for bonus points. If you happen to be on a green slip....well, you get the idea.
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Are you serious, it’s a stretch to think AA matched DL, then UA? Really? We would easily come up with more than 23 bullet list items which matched. On balance, everyone knows APA came in very low on pay rates, and then matched DL’s AIP to the penny. Plus lots of other matched items like retro of 4/4/14, and other work rules as well. UA then matched DL and added 2% to the pay rates after our snap-up clause. AA then “matched” that…. Again. I don’t know why what’s so hard to “stretch” your brain around. Without DL and UA, AA’s contract would be billions lower.
I’ll help: I said it would be a stretch to say that AA matched DAL and that we definitely did not match UAL.
#119
man is there a lot of contortionism trying to cherry pick at the margins where APA possibly on DALPA an UAL. But it won't change the fact that APA didn't raise the bar, period.
#120
Because when you look at the APA website at https://negotiations.alliedpilots.org/Contract2023 > TA Summary. Here are just a few things that match DL, with help from UA (who matched DL and added 2%):
- Pay tables, to the penny
- 4/4/14 Retro
- 17% DC in 2024 and 18% in 2026,
- Profit Sharing formula
- Vacation paying 4:35
- Training pay of 3:05/day
- Training withdrawal option
- Reassignment pay at 150% day 1, 200% day 2
- 2:00 pay for release between 0000-0159
- sit pay exceeding 2:30 (DL actually 3 going to 2 on 1/1/24)
- LTD 50% of Final earnings (APA exceeded DL with "no offsets")
- MBCBP
- And more
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