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Originally Posted by notEnuf
He's a DFW commuter, no? Why wouldn't he be for it?
It's still a job sucking, productivity disguised, QOL and bid package obliterating issue that could have been allowed to expire, but the wisdom of the NC seems to be greater than mine.
I agree that it is a job draining concession. With the unilateral pull down feature, its unfathomable that we wouldn't pull it down the second it expired.
That said, in its current form the company will be very limited in how many of our jobs they can eliminate. The C Series fantasy is hilarious to watch the white paper crowd pontificate about how great it is.
To think that they will have enough pilots from a relatively small base to staff a VB, with anything close to a CA/FO balance, based on people bidding that category in hopes of breaking them off a piece of aforementioned tiny VB is hilarious. That's not even the point of that sad little provision. The real point is getting the foot in the door, much like they did with the first double digit large RJ order. We just need this small tactical fleet to help us help you, see! Then almost instantly hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them, and next round our MEC is seriously entertaining even more (stay tuned).
VB's as they potentially exist on paper now are a small cancer, mostly benign. We have the option to completely remove it with no deductible and no copay, but instead we're going to give it time to flourish, and 100% in the future we will be pressured to expand the job killing "operational flexibility" of them.
Its like watching a movie where we're the hot cheerleader home alone who hears a noise in the basement, and instead of calling the cops we're going downstairs in our flip flops to check it out. She turns on the light in the stairwell and it doesn't work, so she uses the light from her phone screen instead. Everyone watching is yelling at the screen "no don't go down there are you crazy!" and she goes anyway.