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Old 04-24-2012 | 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Express pilot

Good, thats great to hear. Sounds positive.
Makes you wonder. If the sound byte is no hiring until late 2013 to 2015 that doesn't preclude them from tapping their flow through obligations and furlough recalls before that. So much for our honest company :rollseyes:

And what is the deal with PCS? It's in serious need of an upgrade...to like. Windows 3.11 at least.
Old 04-24-2012 | 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Express pilot
True but they has turned down a TA in the last decade. Again what scares me is why would DALPA bring us that TA and push for it.
For the same reason every MEC brings a TA, they think it is the best they can do.

That doesn't bother me.

What bothers me is the sales job where everything is roses and concessions are downplayed. This is where being your own best expert is important...If you dont read it how can you know if its better or not?
Old 04-24-2012 | 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by scambo1
For the same reason every MEC brings a TA, they think it is the best they can do.

That doesn't bother me.

What bothers me is the sales job where everything is roses and concessions are downplayed. This is where being your own best expert is important...If you dont read it how can you know if its better or not?
Give them a record SLI. On a 40% paycut, pensions gone, work rules slashed, scope and they think that was the best they can do? Come on
Old 04-24-2012 | 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by scambo1
They passed the TA when we merged.
By a wider margin.

If you (Express Pilot) are basing your hopes on some cobra DNA, you're going to be disappointed. I realize this is going to feel like some sort of NvS statement, but I'm pretty sure the fact is that both groups have been willing to a) try to save their company from bankruptcy by giving till it hurts, b) giving again as they screamed in BK, and c) giving some more in the merger. And it's not even unique to our two airlines: everyone worked out their voting calculations the same way, from UsAirways, to United, to CAL, etc.

You can try to convince yourself all day long that salvation has come from the North, but it actually comes from within. In fact, the greatest NvS contributor is precisely the advocacy of the notion we're somehow different, when we're probably very much alike.

Which means you've got to do the hard work, and ask yourself how it is that every TA passes, despite failing a mood test on any internet forum. The obvious answer is that the real pilot group isn't as agressive as the virtual, internet pilot group.

Step one in bridging the gap is not treating everyone that doesn't agree as a tool. Read some of the responses to this post, for a perfect example of what not to do.

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Old 04-24-2012 | 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by scambo1
What bothers me is the sales job
Me too. It's insulting, and it's counter-productive. But it's also tradition.

Never understood that.
Old 04-24-2012 | 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Boomer
Subsidized by them? No.

Owned by them? Yes. 100%
Subsidized........Owned.......ehh.......Scemantics

Thanks,

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Old 04-24-2012 | 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Express pilot
Give them a record SLI. On a 40% paycut, pensions gone, work rules slashed, scope and they think that was the best they can do? Come on
I'm not really following you here. It might be a punctuation thing or a complete thought thing. Help me out.

Make no mistake, the MEC during that time was scared to death...
Old 04-24-2012 | 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Gearjerk
Subsidized........Owned.......ehh.......Scemantics

Thanks,

GJ
Delta owns Comair. Delta subsidizes Pinnacle, Alaska and Republic.
Similar, yet different I guess.
Old 04-24-2012 | 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Gearjerk
They can afford to fly those 380's all over the world, at 50% capacity, with the price of jet fuel in the Middle East. What is it up to now, $0.50/gal of Jet A?

Add insult to injury, isn't EK subsidized by the Royal Family/Government? I'm unaware of this fact, just asking out of curiosity?

GJ
They buy their jet A from Singspore and have it shipped in. No kidding. They do not lay the asinine landing fees we pay in DXB though.
Old 04-24-2012 | 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Express pilot
I don't need to be preached to. I will vote no unless 20% and scope changes. I'm saying a TA comes and everyone you fly with says it won't pass and it passes. Example why did we vote in the last TA after we got NW. It was the same TA we just got and DALPA told us we would get a better deal once NW was with us and DALPA brings us a TA with the same stuff with just minor gains. Green Slip and SC from 8 to 6. Vote that down. Its passed. Thats what scares me.
I think you expectations are too low.
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