Any ALPA-produced slide or graphic will always be labeled propaganda. It's as useless as an outhouse in a hurricane to the no crowd.

True. Depends on your perspective.

IIRC, when they had that slide up today, the Neg Comm Chairman said something to the effect of "If our current contract requires 10,000 pilots to do all the flying for this year, then under this agreement it will require 9,992 pilots for 2017, 9,992 pilots for 2018 and 10,014 pilots for 2019. The change in 2019 is due to the additional bump in vacation value. This is why we characterize this deal as staffing neutral."

Not a direct quote, but I'm darn close.

I think that's partly TIC?

The real question is whether the group benefits, both those that take the VB/TDY, and those that stay in base. TDY in particular seems like a tool to adjust staffing between bases, almost in real time.

There is a ton here that needs to be looked at, carefully. I think we owe it to the people that want these to experiment with this, just as I think we owe it to all existing pilots to evaluate the pros and cons.

I have a hunch that this will reduce credit, and probably reduce average trip length.

I think you're reading it wrong. I think it would only add 47 jobs. It would be the same 47 jobs for 3 years, not 47 more jobs every year.

That's just one example of how throwing the QOL card is a desperate play.

Probably. You'll need a micrometer to see it, and I highly doubt that even if you could you could prove it.

Besides, isn't working less for the same or more money a QOL improvement?

Not sure how the second parapgraph relates to the first, James.

The one thing I'm not seeing in that slide is the impact of the JV Scope change... Does this mean it has no impact on manning? I would think it does...

Denny

Maybe. But they said it was a net -2 jobs for the entire TA which is the last line added horizontally.