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I hope you are right on this one. If there is ANY type of concessions to pay for any gains we get in C2015.....I'm an easy NO vote. I won't even listen to the DALPA sales job this time around. I'm smart enough to know we don't need to give up anything when we can blow 5 BILLION buying back stock.
The company just committed 5 years of our concessions to shareholders (some of our largest individual shareholders being Management types and Directors) while we are in negotiations.
RA and company are pretty confident that labor risk is, in fact, off the table. I'm trying not to let it feel like a slap in the face.
RA and company are pretty confident that labor risk is, in fact, off the table. I'm trying not to let it feel like a slap in the face.
Giving billions to shareholders is not a slap in the face. Yet.
This will only be a slap in the face if they come to us with some insulting proposal like 9,6,4,4 funded by a reduction in profit sharing.
This better be a "historic" contract and it better happen soon.
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Heading to NZ next March and just had a conversation with the wife 5 minutes ago and she felt we couldn't do both S and N islands in 11 days. Is she right? We are not extreme outdoorsy types but would like to see both.
If we are limited to just one, which would you recommend?
Thanks, FTS.
Heading to NZ next March and just had a conversation with the wife 5 minutes ago and she felt we couldn't do both S and N islands in 11 days. Is she right? We are not extreme outdoorsy types but would like to see both.
If we are limited to just one, which would you recommend?
Thanks, FTS.
Thing to remember is that their "highway" is more like a two lane road with shoulders so when you look at a map, plan on about double the driving time you might have spent in the US for the same distance.
Personally, if I had only 12 days or less, I'd just tour the south island (the Alps of the Southern Hemisphere), even if your not "outdoorsy" then maybe you'd go faster. Glaciers coming down to sea level to walk in to, fiords to cruise through (milford sound must see), glow worm cave to tour (outstanding on lake Tanau), visiting the beaches down by Invercargill and watching a flock of penguins just mosey up on the beach, hitting the hot springs with an amazing view in Tekapo, and short hike into the Blue pools on the Haast river, each day had some sort of natural amazement and I had three young kids in tow.
I've been all over the world with the Navy, including all over Australia, and nothing compares to New Zealand for me personally. Truly astounding. I'm jealous just thinking about it!
If you believe the rumored 9-6-4-4 over 3 years can be beat, I invite you to show the math(also accounting for time value of money) on how we can head back to the table and within 3 years get the gains you're looking for plus make up for extra pay not earned due to being at the table. No rhetoric. Just the math.
I'll go with 5% a year after that if, and only if we give no concessions.
Any scope concessions and or no tightening of the JV language and it's a NO vote from the bird.
Great advice. Thanks. Had many Aussies tell us to not waste time there and spend it all in NZ.
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We spent 3 days in Auckland, then flew to Christchurch and rented a camper van for 12 more days which I felt was about right for the South Island loop. Never felt too rushed, but everyday there were things that we would have stopped to see or do if we had more time. The whole place is really set up well for tourism, and the country and people embrace it.
Thing to remember is that their "highway" is more like a two lane road with shoulders so when you look at a map, plan on about double the driving time you might have spent in the US for the same distance.
Personally, if I had only 12 days or less, I'd just tour the south island (the Alps of the Southern Hemisphere), even if your not "outdoorsy" then maybe you'd go faster. Glaciers coming down to sea level to walk in to, fiords to cruise through (milford sound must see), glow worm cave to tour (outstanding on lake Tanau), visiting the beaches down by Invercargill and watching a flock of penguins just mosey up on the beach, hitting the hot springs with an amazing view in Tekapo, and short hike into the Blue pools on the Haast river, each day had some sort of natural amazement and I had three young kids in tow.
I've been all over the world with the Navy, including all over Australia, and nothing compares to New Zealand for me personally. Truly astounding. I'm jealous just thinking about it!
Thing to remember is that their "highway" is more like a two lane road with shoulders so when you look at a map, plan on about double the driving time you might have spent in the US for the same distance.
Personally, if I had only 12 days or less, I'd just tour the south island (the Alps of the Southern Hemisphere), even if your not "outdoorsy" then maybe you'd go faster. Glaciers coming down to sea level to walk in to, fiords to cruise through (milford sound must see), glow worm cave to tour (outstanding on lake Tanau), visiting the beaches down by Invercargill and watching a flock of penguins just mosey up on the beach, hitting the hot springs with an amazing view in Tekapo, and short hike into the Blue pools on the Haast river, each day had some sort of natural amazement and I had three young kids in tow.
I've been all over the world with the Navy, including all over Australia, and nothing compares to New Zealand for me personally. Truly astounding. I'm jealous just thinking about it!
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In Australia, they will talk about the "Blue mountains" but there not really mountains at all, more like the edge of a giant plateau with a steep face.
AZ is quite similar to the US, but NZ is unpopulated, unspoiled and cheaper.
Send me a PM if you need any ideas for the South Island or the Aukland area, but the beaches near Aukland are the very broad, dark sand type.
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