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Originally Posted by Sink r8
Bar,
Sorry, I was editing as you were answering.
My understanding of that situation is that we met, and offered to work an arrangement, along the lines of a staple, but ASA/CMR wanted to force a ...PID (not sure what that stands for, but to force a declaration of a merger), to trigger the merger policy.
Is this not correct?
There is of course no way that would have been acceptable to the Delta pilots, just as we couldn't agree today, to any combination without a pre-negotiated list. Which would have to be essentially a staple.
I'm not sure they're "against recapture", but I see your rationale, even if I disagree about the RJDC issue. There was also a desire in C2K to get rid of Express. Many pilots referred to Express as a cancer. If only we could have that kind of cancer again! I would be open to creating an operation that brings RJ's in-house, whether it's labelled as "cancer", or "B-Scale", if the pilots were on the list, and our contract. It's a lot better to have tailored work-rules and payrates for smaller jets, than to have them outsourced.
Be my guest for the last word, I have to wrap-up.
Regards,
Sink r8
Sink r8, be careful what you ask for! Remember, Express was composed of formerly MAINLINE 737-200's, that we then took a huge PAY CUT, to keep, only because Mo'Ron threatened to sell them, just like he did the DC9's in 1993. So, yeah, we kept the airframes, but at a huge pay cut and a two year lock on if you bid Capt. on it.
Meanwhile, all those Mainline 737-200 Captains and F/O's, in CVG, ATL and DFW, were DISPLACED off of it, as it was put into Express in MCO. I was just about to bid Capt. on the 737 in CVG when that all went down, so I remember it well, and how I moved backwards in the right seat of the MD 11 for the next several years, as with every displacement bid those former 737 Capt.s come onto the right seat of the MD 11.
So if tomorrow, Richard says, "Hey, we want to start a new, Low Cost Airline in Orlando, and we are going to use our MD 88's and we are going to pay the Capt.s $100/hr..."
Would you (any of you) vote yes to that?
That's about what happened with Express and our 737-200's, in POS 96, which is why I voted NO. BUT, the Majority voted Yes, and we proved to Management that we are willing to fly Mainline airframes for less...