Flight Focus: About EFB

Our new EFB platform? If so, this has quite a bit more functionality than the pdf / ipad solution.

 

I know. Frustrating isn't it. My wish list has a bunch more things on it than that...

It's not about "want"... It's about the leverage we actually have to "get".

 

Shiz,
What INTEGERS did they propose to significantly increase our hourly rates of pay.
Come on, you know what I'm asking when I say what was our opener.

 

After our lead negotiator was done with our TA he went and worked his same magic at the VW dealership.



His family, much like his union membership, not quite as impressed with his abilities as he was himself.

 

In other news, American reported it has no other plan to exit bankruptcy and will need to start over with creation of a stand alone plan then negotiate with creditors and the Courts if their merger with US is quashed. They estimate that process would take another 2 and 1/2 years. They pulled about 1.5% capacity down starting this fall.

Plane Business Banter put out the analysis created by Brett Snyder outside their paywall .... executive summary ....The DOJ says they relied on an outside consultant for their analysis and is claiming "work privilege" to keep their data away from public scrutiny.

By Popular Demand: PlaneBusiness Analysis Of GAO Report on American Airlines-US Airways Merger | PlaneBuzz

IMHO it appears the DOJ failed to consider what happens to American without the merger and made erroneous assumptions based on growth faries and financing from the sale of unicorn tears.

 

And let the political games begin.

Now we'll see who the state of Texas loves more, American or SWA?

 

Great. So we'll still have USAir and AMR's low wages holding down the average when we exchange openers in 1 1/2 years?

 

I think for Delta, pilots flying the 76 seater routes with mainline 717s has finally become economical and will continue to be so for the near future. The real reason is the anticipated turnover. As we start retiring 400-800 pilots a year, the turnover on the smaller fleet will be tremendous. And thereby allowing the cost of operating the 717 to be low. Of course that is assuming people will progress off the 717 to larger airframes.

 

AA got pay bumps in their concessionary contract that jump on up closer to ours (and eventually pass us), so the laggard will still be US. You can bet your paycheck they sure won't be raising the bar by themselves by then...and probably will be working under the same payrates as they have for the last 9 or whatever it is years. USAPA: the ostrich with its head in the sand of pilot unions.

 

Fair enough. I know we won't agree, but I appreciate the good exchange.

I openly support ALPA and encourage getting involved when I'm out on the line, but one reality you're going to have to deal with in your second part is that right at half the pilot group (above half of active pilots) has put in a DPA card. Apparently most of those things have been renewed.

This is in no small part to the many missteps that have been made, particularly with the C2012 effort. That alone was worth about 800 cards immediately afterward. ALPA, should they want to remain our bargaining agent, is going to have to seriously look at the way they do things, how they take line pilot input, and how they take ALPA national lawyer input if they want to stop that train coming down the tracks.

The blood is on many of your alpa predecesors' hands, but its up to the current regime to fix. Get on it!