I agree, I was being facetious.

 

Curious, does anyone know the PHL VP candidate (Wesley, I think) stance on the company proposal? If he supports it, then you PHL pilots need to vote for him.

 

Or we can educate people on why it's bad to vote in concessionary work rules in this environment. It's not section 6, remember?

 

Could the company do these things? Sure, but none of it would make sense. Yes, they could DH the IRO on legs that don't require his services, but why would they? The green book requires TATL/TPAC DH to be in business class, and with 100% pay and credit. To DH a pilot to Europe so that he could IRO the return, the company would save no money, since it's paying all three pilots 100%, and they would have to assign the J seat that would have been used for rest to the DH pilot. In the current configuration, they would still get one extra J seat to sell in the 757/767, because those planes require 2 J seats for crew rest; however, both are being converted to configurations with single seats that would not require 2 seats to be blocked. If the cost is the same (or very similar), why would the company choose to DH the extra pilot one way, rather than take advantage of the extra FDP/block hour limits of an augmented crew in case of any potential delays?

 

I suppose that includes those pilots against the companies proposal ?

Too funny.

 

Total AAG offer: $1.8 billion above MTA/arbitration limits

Total AAG asks: $114 million

Net to APA: $1.686 billion

Ratio: AAG “gets” vs. APA “gets”: 1 to 17

 

Exactly. You gave and gave and gave over the last 13 years. Your company is the most profitable they've ever been. They're testing you to see if you're going to give anything else. Why would you? This is the most important turning point in most of our careers. Make it count. Show them you're worth much more than they think your worth. They will continue to give you more and more things if you just show them you want it. This isn't 2004 or 2007. This is now 2015, oil is at $58 a barrel, and the company is making Billions.

 

I heard if the proposal passes, we'll get a nice pay raise, but we'll have to work 24 days a month and have to stay in a Days Inn on every trip for at least 47 hours each time. Is this true? (Been reading C&R too much lately)

 

Well one of the reasons the FAs voted no on their contact was the motel language. They were going to put them in motels. They probably want to go the same route with you, your quality of hotels has gone down significantly in the past few years.

 

A person that would place himself and his family on a wholly-owned regional jet--- co-piloted by actual food stamp recepients shouldn't be above placing his mainline crews in M-6's.