If ALPA was last at your property in 2005 what has IBT been doing?

According to APC you contract was amendable over two years ago...

AND

WB FOs at my airline make more than your 747 CAs... think about that every time you fly...

Weak unions like SWAPA, IPA and IBT are easy for the company to manipulate and delay...

Enjoy....


....the scourge.

And who might you fly for?

Southern minimums have been reduced to ATP, so it is quite possible that Southern will hire people directly out of a -172.

Additionally, in the announcement of the Ameriflight Pilot Pathway program, they reference the Atlas ATP/CTP program. If they are truly developing one, that lends credence to taking new pilots...

https://w3.ameriflight.com/ameriflig...ide-companies/

It's true that we're drawing from a different talent pool than we have in the past. This new reservoir of pilots will require a longer training footprint. Moreover, as pilots realize this isn't a place to stay, we're losing the expertise to move airplanes efficiently. This is why it would be more efficient for all parties to pay competitively.

Referring to pilots who have been flying recips and turboprops at AMF as "straight out of flight school" bothers me. We shouldn't invent a qualitative difference which does not exist. Moreover it's a self-defeating statement to make.

When we make the leap to demeaning these Ameriflight, GoJet or any pilots, others can make the same leap to demean us. Why pay Atlas pilots more when they can't make it anywhere better? If Atlas pilots can't go anywhere better, how much to they really need to be paid in order to fill the seats?

There are a lot of points which can made to support increasing our compensation. Supporting more and faster growth, for example. Trashing other pilots inadvertently trashes OUR pilots.

ALPA can help, but it seems there it too much pride.

In my opinion ALPA cannot help here. First, it would be crazy to start from scratch. Atlas has to stay with the one they came to the dance with. Second, and most importantly, 1224 is Atlas. It is as close to having your own union as there can be. In some ways it is better. The other airlines share your expenses while Atlas controls their own destiny.

DEM hits the nail on the head when he writes that pride is a factor. With the debt load that AAWW holds, I thought that the strategy used at the beginning of the negotiations was a good one. No OT and slow down the machine and you will get them to the table. The board was smarter than me and the strategy was not effective. Instead of changing the strategy, they have chosen to plod ahead.

Atlas will eventually get a contract. But at what cost?

Yeah, just look at that ground breaking, industry leading winner of a contract they got for the suckers ATI. :rolleyes:

Very familiar, thank you. Which is why we are staying with Teamsters.

FYI: The new Kalitta contract was negotiated and signed into existance by Teamsters 1224.

Post 17 hits the nail on the head. Atlas using all the other carriers for their money while only looking out for themselves. Not letting Omni or k4 vote on their own contracts that passed by 90+% because it didn’t have work rules that Atlas wanted, even though those rules would tank the contracts they had with their customers. That’s why K4 went ALPA. Let’s have ABX strike during peak so we look better to Amazon... all while being the lowest paid and making no headway on a new contract for themselves.
I hope one day soon Atlas and ABX get block buster contracts so they can finally say I told you so. Makes it easier when all the other contracts become amendable in two years.


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