What can I say? Thank you! That cleansed my grid!

Are these the positions being offered (B seats) for the recalls?

Scoop

Sorry about that Scoop..Yes All B seats

Welcome back.

Yep. The most senior guy coming back is 5500ish. Incredible. It should be noted that when these guys bid off of these positions, they will not be displacing anyone unless there are displacements in a bid. If it's AE only (like this most recent bid), no one can be bumped.

I think the bucket sizes should be variable. They have been unwilling to shift the bucket sizes thus far. Most important is tying SC to the overall bucket. Currently (and quite frequently), you can fly every day on call and then be first up for short call despite being in a higher bucket than others. That has to be fixed.

Curious- how would a membership election of the MEC chairs marginalize the reps? Currently that process is removed from the membership, and national leadership doubly removed from the membership.

edit: per sink's request I posed the concept in the representation thread.

Since there is going to be continual AE's going forward the Company has the option of letting them bid to whatever they can hold, it will minimize retraining costs.

We shall see....

Combining SC and current RAW in to one metric will require negotiations, so its a good resolution to bring to the floor of the LEC.

On the elections. There are two sides to this and both make good and valid points.

If the membership wants to go this way, I have always suggested a middle ground position. Membership elects, the Master Chairman, but the MEC (Reps) hold the ability to recall. Furthermore, the MEC could nominate the candidaes to the top three vote getters (MEC-Rep vote) and then send these top vote/nomination candidates to the pilots for vote.

What this does is take the concern that a direct membership election and recall process would turn in to some of the independent food fight where the process stalls and work cannot get done. It allows the ability to recall to remain with the Reps who have the most intimate knowledge of the effectiveness of a person. A nomination vote from the MEC puts a check valve in the process that allows those that truly have the ability to run our MEC (not a easy task btw, with 600 volunteers and 29 Reps with a reach that most do not appreciate) to be vetted.

Unless these items are part of the Resolution that passes the LEC level, it will be face with stiff headwind. The whole debate goes to the philosophical level of a Representational democracy, which the USA is but with some one offs like the ability to impeach not being left to the populous but their elected representatives, and, the nominations being being vetted though a primary process of two parties. That gets taken care of by recall remaining with the MEC and a nomination process mimicking the two party primary process we see in US politics with a MEC nomination process that is open to pilot in good standing.

What say you?

Thanks Buck,

Looking forward to being back!

Just got back from local Costco. Not sure if it is available nationwide, but case of Sierra Nevada Torpedoes were in stock.