AA AIP (no raise for you!)
#41
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Really? If I were Ed, I would want to drive AAL/UAL/JBLU/LUV's costs as high as possible. And vice versa. There is a one time snap that will add a bunch to DAL's costs. DAL + $.01 would do it. It's just dumb to not want to do that, because a lot can happen before the next one and there is a good chance a recession is on the way
#42
I really don’t know. The safer play is to give their pilots equivalent raises and any money left over being directed at work rules and retirement. I’m sure when it’s all over, UA, AA, and DL will all have really similar pay and retirement savings numbers, and the only differentiation in our contracts will be work rules and QOL.
#43
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Does anyone really think AA would benefit from topping us so that we top them by a small amount versus simply undershooting us by a similar amount in the first place?
Maybe if AA was financially dominant and DL were teetering on the verge that could make sense. Even then, the last thing you want is for a major competitor to absolutely dominate you by going through the BK process.
The "me too clause" is just insurance in the unlikely event someone beats us. There's really no financial windfall incentive for any other airline to try and do that simply to activate that clause, just to get us to be a tiny percentage above them.
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I get the exhuberance from hearing AA got a deal and hoping for another immediate raise. But the logic behind this is kind of silly.
Does anyone really think AA would benefit from topping us so that we top them by a small amount versus simply undershooting us by a similar amount in the first place?
Maybe if AA was financially dominant and DL were teetering on the verge that could make sense. Even then, the last thing you want is for a major competitor to absolutely dominate you by going through the BK process.
The "me too clause" is just insurance in the unlikely event someone beats us. There's really no financial windfall incentive for any other airline to try and do that simply to activate that clause, just to get us to be a tiny percentage above them.
Does anyone really think AA would benefit from topping us so that we top them by a small amount versus simply undershooting us by a similar amount in the first place?
Maybe if AA was financially dominant and DL were teetering on the verge that could make sense. Even then, the last thing you want is for a major competitor to absolutely dominate you by going through the BK process.
The "me too clause" is just insurance in the unlikely event someone beats us. There's really no financial windfall incentive for any other airline to try and do that simply to activate that clause, just to get us to be a tiny percentage above them.
By coming in 1 cent above Delta, it forces Delta pay rates to increase not 1 cent but 1% correct?
#45
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I get the exhuberance from hearing AA got a deal and hoping for another immediate raise. But the logic behind this is kind of silly.
Does anyone really think AA would benefit from topping us so that we top them by a small amount versus simply undershooting us by a similar amount in the first place?
Maybe if AA was financially dominant and DL were teetering on the verge that could make sense. Even then, the last thing you want is for a major competitor to absolutely dominate you by going through the BK process.
The "me too clause" is just insurance in the unlikely event someone beats us. There's really no financial windfall incentive for any other airline to try and do that simply to activate that clause, just to get us to be a tiny percentage above them.
Does anyone really think AA would benefit from topping us so that we top them by a small amount versus simply undershooting us by a similar amount in the first place?
Maybe if AA was financially dominant and DL were teetering on the verge that could make sense. Even then, the last thing you want is for a major competitor to absolutely dominate you by going through the BK process.
The "me too clause" is just insurance in the unlikely event someone beats us. There's really no financial windfall incentive for any other airline to try and do that simply to activate that clause, just to get us to be a tiny percentage above them.
#46
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Mathematically what you say makes sense. Emotionally, not so much. Do you think paying less than Delta rates improves the probability of ratification? Does it improve moral? Could it lead to greater labor strife? You know, all the emotional items that need to be taken into consideration when evaluating the "world view"
Your point of wether or not it will be ratified because they're not the highest paid is a different concern. I can't speak for them nor do I know how this deal looks in comparison to their current book.
Will 50%+1 or more vote no to a comprehensive PWA they would have otherwise voted yes on simply because they weren't briefly the top paid before a "me too clause" made them no longer the top paid?
Maybe. But IMO that seems highly unlikely. We'll see.
#47
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I think we all want the same thing but I never counted on AA to lift the bar. The AA pilots I know convey a state of affairs over there of sheer misery, and they say the group as a whole will jump to approve even a marginal improvement. As a Delta pilot I’m just rooting for AA not to declare BK and drag the rest of the industry down with it.
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I think it is kind of funny because didn’t UA have a me too clause that kicked in because of our rates? And yet now that we have a me too everybody is pretty sure it won’t kick in because reasons. Probably right but kind of ironic.
#49
Minor point but I think they are IATA codes. ICAO codes are 4-letter codes (KLAX/KDEN). However, both have North American headquarters basically side-by-each in Montréal which, of course, is home to the the most successful hockey team in the history of the NHL, even with their 30-year hiatus from hoisting the hardware. ("The curse of the scorned Forum").
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfOUVYQnuhw&t=2s
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