The power given the company under the RLA clearly gives them the upper hand and the ability to stall for a long long LONG time. Our management has shown over and over that a bunch of Harvard MBAs well versed in running a ULCC airline are barely able to follow our CBA (some would say they willfully violate it when it suits them), but the RLA forces labor through the grievance process, (even expedited arbitration is painfully slow - although we finally won one the other day!).

They unilaterally reinterpret our CBA and we grieve it. We step a mm out of line, the company gets a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in civil court - not an arbitrator - to stop us from behaving badly, and can take out their anger on the union's bank account. Ask any of the APA pilots who took matters into their own hands, violating a TRO in the process, during the American Airlines sick-out of February 1999.

The anecdote I've heard from someone who was close to the case was that, after the pilots defied Judge Parker's TRO, Judge Parker asked an APA rep what their assets were, and assessed an award essentially equal to that amount. "At the conclusion of the hearing, the district court announced its decision from the bench to award $45,507,280.00 in compensatory damages attributable to the defendants' conduct."

AMERICAN AIRLINES INC v. Allied Pilots Association, Richard T. Lavoy, and Brian A. Mayhew, Defendants?Appellants. | FindLaw

It's stressful being on this side of the RLA, but it must be followed. We talk about "unity"; we need to walk the walk behind our union leaders. Be ready to strike, but now is the time to do our jobs and wait for eventual release for self help.

 

Looks like a new FA Base will be happening in CVG

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnat...-cvg-base.html

 

Interesting............

 

Yes it is. Cincy is a great airport. So is the area... Greaters, Montgomery Rib Inn, LaRosa's, Skyline, and GoldStar. Love to see us expand big time there!

What would be fantastic is if they'd let me do the FA recruiting. I'd recruit on the UK Campus in Lexington just like a former Cincy airline once did...man, those were the days. Good times...and now back to reality

 

Any word on a new pilot base (anyone been to recurrent lately)?

Vegas? Phoenix?

 

CORRECTION: Based on information released at a CVG board meeting, a previous version of this story incorrectly indicated Frontier was looking at establishing a base at CVG.

 

The article looks like a hiring event. The last paragraph says they will be based at one of our four FA bases.

My money for a new pilot base is still on Vegas or Phoenix but there has been no official word from the company about a new pilot domicile.

 

Did you read the requirements to be a Frontier FA?

Applicants should be at least 20 years old, have no tattoos from their shoulders to fingertips, neck or chest area and behind the ear. Women cannot have tattoos from their mid thigh to their toes and no multiple piercings. They also should bring valid passports and a current resumes.

It looks like as long as you don't have a Tattoo you're in!!

 

I think Vegas as a recent article said Frontier will have more weekly departures than Spirit by July 2017. Spirit has about 100 pilot crews based in LAS.

 

20 destinations out of Vegas and growing. Vegas sure appears to be on track to be a crew base.