Yes. And the emails from management talking about focusing on A14. My argument is if we focused on D0, A14 would come naturally. From my experience, there is not enough urgency to get the flight out. Those minutes matter, and over the course of a year, it really matters.

 

Corporate bond spreads right now are extremely tight. Wouldn’t be a dumb move to try and raise in this current environment.

 

AA merger announced soon after🤝

 

AA Guy here: Although I am pro ALPA, and I walked the terminals to help out during our card drive (that ultimately came up just short of the 50+1%), I don’t think we’re as close as we were a year ago. The anger over the contact (the primary driver of the ALPA switch) has somewhat faded. Additionally, although many of our board of directors (base reps) have changed and be elected pro-ALPA, many hurtles remain. most notably, we need to get 50+1% of the entire pilot group to vote for it. Not those that show up like any other election, but 50+1% total. meaning if you stay home a don’t vote for either, your “vote” defaults to APA.

Imagine of our president was elected in a similar process; if you don’t go to th polls, your vote goes to the incumbent. it’s a veryyy high bar to raise here. the card drive got about 45%, but people were angry we didn’t get a lot of the QOL improvements in the last contract. some of that has faded.

Aslo, and just being honest here, in the current environment of mergers, there is a legitimate concern about how SLI would happen if we acquired an ALPA carries (NK, B6, F9) if we were indeed ALPA, vs indipendant APA

I don’t think it’ll happen, but in the current environment, you nerve know.

I think we would be much stronger as one massive ALPA, especially when it comes future battles on single pilot etc. but i just don’t know how his is gonna play out here. lots of Anti-Alpa sentiment still left over from TWA, Envoy guys and others

 

I know the feeling….

 

Anyone know our attrition numbers?

Know handful guys that are bailing to the legacies ….

 

low. United and AA are hiring a ton of spirit pilots.

jan 26 - 10- total 8 left / 2 retired
Dec 25 - 6- 3/3(1 deceased)
Nov 25 - 11- 7/4
oct 25 - 18 - 11/7

 

$100 oil inbound.

 

There goes our perfect macro environment we need… we’ll get em next year

 

This "war" will be over in a week...