Really. Scared. Too funny. I said it was miserable here, not scared.

The company had through informal and formal communications targeted pilots greed, plus the Comair strike, all came together to result in a level of employee and customer animosity towards pilots. The irony was people had no idea their snide comments about "pilots bleeding this company to death" were directed at an Atlantic Southeast pilot making less than $20,000 a year. ...

What?

Did we?

We are somewhat of an outlier in the use of 2 Captains in a four man.

The noncompliance with our scope section is repeated and willful. It is time for punitive damages, much larger than actual damages, to compel the company into compliance.

The path of least resistance for an arbitrator is to do nothing and wait for the ALPA and the company to negotiate a resolution. In the past, ALPA has used scope violations for negotiating leverage. It is also worth observing that this hasn't always been the case. C15 separated the scope violation and contract negotiations.

My impression of our current administration is that they are not inclined to trade scope. However, politics are always a wildcard.

That is why I found it odd no one discussed it in the forum. If it’s TA’d this early I would assume we maintained are crew augmentation rules which are much better and far more costly than other airlines. It’s a good thing in a otherwise slow process.

I agree with that preliminary assessment. There couldn't possibly be a situation where we would have TA'd a concession like that at this point anyway. Talk about a poison pill.

How long have you been in this industry? We could take paycuts while they get raises, and some employees would say that we should have taken bigger cuts so they could get bigger raises. I don't GAS what the other employees think about our pay/raises/retirement, etc. We all chose our jobs. If they don't like it, get qualified and apply to be a pilot.

latest update has a projected AE of mid-November. You still willing to honor the 50 dollar bet?

Yup! I'll pay up.

Strange thing is the union now says we don’t have a TA in that section. They said we did and now we don’t which means we are back to having exactly nothing of importance TA’d after 6 months of accelerated negotiations.