Or if the deal was sweet enough they could reactivate the freedom cert with The 145 on it . Probably not likely but possible.

 

We all keep talking about voting, who’s to say the Union doesn’t decide for us? I don’t see how you push out something for the whole pilot group to read and review in under a week.

 

No we have scope protection. Did JO sell that cert?

 

More misinformation. Or should I call it Mesanfomation. Anyway - Mesa scope clause prevents separate certificate operation under MAG.

 

Yeah and I hope you get to live with those concessions for a very long time

 

if not for an unforeseen pandemic, they were right. This wasn’t on anybody’s radar as a potential roadblock.

 

I tried to figure that out. Mesa and Delta jointly owned the certificate. I was unable to ferret out the current status.

 

It's not that he doesn't get it. It's that he disagrees. Different values. 'If only he knew what I knew, then he'd agree.' Yeah right.

 

I think they keep one or two planes on it to keep it warm. An used cert will lapse.

 

protect junior pilots from furlough and hold the line against the company:

Keep full pay to last day. ALPA increases dues to 20% of paychecks. Junior pilots get furloughed. Senior pilots are paid the full amount by the company. ALPA gives the extra 18% to furloughed pilots.

Endgame is that the payrates never went down, but pilots are taking home what they would if they had given in to severe concessions. Furloughs allow the company to survive, pay rates are not compromised, and instead of forcing the junior pilots to act in self-interest at the expense of the industry, they are taken care of by their bretheren in unity and fraternal sacrifice.

"quit acting in your self-interest, you're hurting the industry" is a lot easier to swallow if the people saying it are making up the difference out of their own paychecks.