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Pinnacle Near Top of Their Game in January '09 On-Time Performance

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I blame the massively overblocked flights. And the reason they can do that is because the union in their infinite wisdom has the worst negotiated pay rules in the industry.

The company can afford to overblock these flights to whatever they want because the pilots only get paid an average trip value. Any time flown over the average trip value, the crews will not get paid for the first 15 minutes of it.

This new contract needs block or better.
 
Wow, so you really pay attention to this?

I'm all about staying on schedule to help out my passengers, but I'm can't remember the last time I personally caused a delay. Weather, mechanicals, flying out of NYC - it's luck of the draw every leg.

But hey, if that's what floats your boat...
 
I blame the massively overblocked flights. And the reason they can do that is because the union in their infinite wisdom has the worst negotiated pay rules in the industry.

The company can afford to overblock these flights to whatever they want because the pilots only get paid an average trip value. Any time flown over the average trip value, the crews will not get paid for the first 15 minutes of it.

This new contract needs block or better.

I won't defend the union leadership which allowed the trip value/15 over system at Pinnacle. I do know we won't be voting on a TA that includes it.

I do ask the question: Were these "the worst negotiated pay rules in the industry", when the union negotiated them in May of 1999?

Now I ask a second question: Are you aware that when said contract was signed in May 1999, Express I airlines was a small outstation based Saab operator? At that time, the pay rates were good, and the work rules were good for the operating environment.

Since that time, Express I has become Pinnacle, a hub based CRJ operator. The work rules are not so good in the current environment and the company has taken great pains to use every loophole in the contract to maximize efficency while reducing staffing. To blame the union for this is rediculous. They negotiated a nice little contract for a small 1999 outstation based Saab operator. A lot has changed since then, and could have been corrected in May 2004 at the amendable date. The company is to blame for the non-ammendment of the current CBA.
 
The only two companies I've ever come across that have actually nice, helpful and reasonable gate agents are SWA and Frontier...(and almost every non-US carrier I've had the pleasure to deal with) other than that they all suck. Comparing gate agents is like comparing regionals-what's the point?
 
I guarantee that Block or Better will not be included in this new TA whenever it comes out.

We walk around like abused spouses making excuses for ourselves and the way we are treated.
 
I do ask the question: Were these "the worst negotiated pay rules in the industry", when the union negotiated them in May of 1999?

Yes. It was chicken sh*t in 1999. And it is chicken sh*t today. I've never known a work group to credit so little for hours flown.
 

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