Trading scope for pay
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Now give me a reason that would allow them to not comply.
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How did we get from the U.S. majors flying all the jets except for some grandfathered and inefficient BAE-146s to a major airline pilot group voting to allow an outsourced fleet of 325 76 seaters with first class and mainline/regional block hour ratios that have an easy escape clauses for management easily escape that part of the agreement?
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We might get hit by an asteroid. You can't negotiate disasters or extremely rare one offs. Everything contract has the same language. If your voting no over pay or scope issues that's fine, to find fault with these escape clauses is just plain dumb.
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And eventually another 9/11 type event could happen and half the list could be furloughed. Do you honestly think you can "what if" and protect yourself from every scenario? You don't trust the language in the TA because it's an escape clause, but management has the exact same language in our current contract.
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Sorry, but this clause is specifically inserted to allow non-compliance with the mainline/regional block hour ratios during a normal economic situation far short of declaring force majeure-type situation. The only other places any similar language is used is WRT AK, foreign carriers and SLI. This language was not used WRT mainline/regional block hour ratios in the current contract.
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The company decides to start parking the 717s in five to ten years and the CPAs don't allow for parking any of the 70-76 seaters.
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The ratios don't call for parking airplanes. It's block hours. Nothing stops them from parking mainline or regional planes now, or in the new TA. But the new TA does control block hours, and the current TA does not. The list of acceptable circumstances is in the contract. Delta controls the CPAs. Those are not out of their control. They control DCI block hours right. That is not out of their control. When I was at CoEx, Continental chucked extra block hours and slashed block hours all the time.
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Do you know a neutral who will order DL to fly more mainline hours or force DCI to not enforce their CPAs?
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