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We're never going to get a scope that makes us the sole operator of 767s anywhere, and even the scope that we did have was killing us. As a result of the 2016 strike, all Amazon growth beyond the 6 -200s we were operating was given to ATI. Due to our intra-ATSG scope, our customers refused to give us any more business specifically because they could not move it if they wanted to.
You don't need that. All three groups just need one that says they can't transfer away hulls to a sister or new company; and can't create or buy a new company for new hulls.
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How do you know whether or not our ExCo signed an NDA? Whether they did or did not, they can't tell us.....
stop right there. Yes, they can say if they signed an NDA or not, if fact, if asked by a member they HAVE to answer. I've been in their shoes and signed one for a different matter; your membership has an absolute right to know if you did or not. The NDA is not secret, the information obtained as a result of signing it is confidential.
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The ExCo has been meeting regularly with management since we signed the last deal, pushing for improvements that would make ABX a better place to stay. Management offered a one-time, limited-scope opportunity to address some of the things that have come up most frequently in surveys of the membership and in exit interviews. It was not going to be a full-blown wide-ranging back-and-forth negotiation. We were not going to set the world on fire with this - it was a chance to make some incremental improvements, at least one of which I think was pretty significant to everyone.
Only because your leadership aquiessed to managements terms of making it small and limited. Section six is section six.
As I said earlier, if the reasoning was the membership expects the recession to hit harder than folks think and recovery will be longer, so grabbing any improvements before then was a smart move. So far, nobody has said that was the reasoning, and instead argued about what somebody else did, or management said we couldn't do more.
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Others are less tangible but are improvements nonetheless. The choice was to take some improvements now or maintain the status quo until at least 2030, probably 2032. Why would we not take that?
You aren't an American Airlines, you'd be released to self help much sooner than that.
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The time for setting the world on fire was the last two years that left ATI in the position of hiring street captains. It didn't happen. It's not happening. We have one customer and ATSG offered us a chance to position ourselves for growth. On May 4, we'll count the votes and know whether we have decided to take it.
Anything they are offering is chump change, and they'll offer it to the next pilot group too.... Just like they tried to get all three groups to bite on the A330's a year or two ago in exchange for just a few more concessions.... they have a pattern, it's plain to see. The winning move is to not play their game by thier rules.