Merry Christmas to all. Oh yea, any good rumors at xjet?

 

I had forgotten about this thread. Thanks for bumping it up.


Where is this new CPA?


I do hear the company is frustrated at the stonewalling.

Our contract was not driving us bankrupt. That was Skywest's doing. They broke it, they bought it.

I think that the point was that the work rules we would need in order for the LXJT side not to take a concession would be of a magnitude that management would not go for. After all, they are asking to take away vacation low. That alone would be the biggest concession!

I think its conceivable that you guys can move to smartpref IF there were the right work rules associated with it. Why is that not rational?

As for reserve rules, yes, touch up some of ours and put that in the new contract. But along with other touch ups in other sections of the contract.


This is not true. I've read all the 10qs and they've been doing it for at least the last few.

BR said this merger would produce about $70 million a year in savings. We don't need to be the cheapest labor group for this operation to make money.

Any improvement in the LXJT compensation and work rules, may seem like asking to price ourselves out to others. Maybe that's the perception problem?

My understanding is that this was turned down.

Why would that be? We all fly regional jets. There are no turboprops or widebodies.

As for transfers, maybe its because the company had to be reminded of what our contract says? Seems to be a regular occurrence to point out blatant violations to management. But yeah, your MO is always to take it out of context to satisfy your need.

I think our pilots, in general, want the line bidding and work rules we currently have. The MEC and management knows this. The MECs compromise will be Smartpref. This is not rocket science here. Now, which side is more reasonable?

The system will only be require to hand BES. So it won't ever get to 800 lines. But my understanding is that it can be expanded with more servers in order to accommodate whatever size bid and speed of resolution we want.

Actually, didn't you say that Mcpickle has been working on smartpref for over a year? My understanding is that there has been no serious consideration of smartpref from your side. They haven't even run a solution using actual trips whereas our side has with flight line.

 

What's the deal with lack of crews? I have been following the delays and cancellations for the past week and we (ASA side) have had to cancel over 50 flights due to no pilot or flight attendant. I haven't seen this in a really long time. Kind of a bad time of the year for that problem.

Anybody have some accurate info on that?

 

They were also junior manning. Propably the winter storm that passed through.

 

They had a 3 day trip in the open time yesterday in DTW with less than 2 hours left before show time FWIW. May be people weren't so motivated to pick it up and help out after being cheated out of the Christmas dinner for 'lack of staffing'

 

They shouldn't be canceling that many flights due to flight crews when caused by weather. Usually the code is going to be related to weather at that point anyways. These are flat out, we don't have anyone to do the flight cancelations. I think it has more to do with the holiday than the weather.

I can imagine that there have been a lot of sick calls. I bet some are legit too. They have been working me to the bone with less time off than normal and EVERYONE around me has been puking or blowing snot everywhere.

It wouldn't surprise me though if people are finally realizing that making the holiday sacrifice for $150 before taxes is pretty lame. They need to start looking into a 200% as a holiday incentive. 150% at 40 an hour for min day is pretty much the middle finger to me.

If you have to work the holiday the company needs to throw a nice incentive in there. Something equivalent to what you are missing. A little food is nice but how many guys have the chance to stop in and eat that stuff. Nothing compares to spending the morning with the little kids but if you can buy them a little extra to compensate for not being there for them, I'd bet they would have a better turn out rate for work.

What other jobs are there that you aren't paid some form of premium for working the holiday? I mean that as a serious question. I can't think of any off the top of my head.

 

As of 0930 they have cancelled 33 flights due to lack of crew. Hmmm........

 

Not all those 33 are due to a lack of pilots...I know you said crew...but unfortunately some people don't remember the lack of FA staffing at this wonderous airline.

 

Most of it is likely due to lack of FAs. As ATL continues to be the Incredible Shrinking Base many FAs who have been off for XMAS for years find themselves not only working XMAS but on reserve.

Most said to heck with that and called in sick.

 

And it wasnt even up at 150%. If they are that desperate, show me the money! Nothing under 200%.