Citrusflyer
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I listened to the entire conf. call and it seemed somewhat constructive. AP convered most of the major issues, except insurance. He said he recognizes that section 5 needs "major re-work" as does scope (mostly related to the holding company).
He touched on the <100 seat pay and tied it in with scope. From what I can gather he was of the opinion that either we can fly smaller planes or someone else can. He wants Airtran pilots to do it. And the pay was low, he admitted this, but was not willing to lower the 717 pay to raise the pay for "a paper airplane" as he put it. His view is that the company cannot even get out of the leases for the 717's until 2015 at the earliest. He sees any new small jet being used similar to jetblue (an additional fleet). Someone suggested that the new TA include language protecting current CA/FO's at their current payscale if involuntarily displaced into any SJ that comes on the property, and he thought that was a good idea and might be workable.
I didn't get the impression that he was willing to change the hotel section.
The training section seemed to be an issue for re-work as well.
There was a lot of discussion about reserves, and not even the guys calling in seemed to agree on the same issues, so I don't really know where he stands on them. But he did seem to be leaning heavily toward protecting line holders.
He said that after talking with the company that the Midwest merger seems more and more likely and that they (both the union and the company) want this done before that starts.
He touched on the <100 seat pay and tied it in with scope. From what I can gather he was of the opinion that either we can fly smaller planes or someone else can. He wants Airtran pilots to do it. And the pay was low, he admitted this, but was not willing to lower the 717 pay to raise the pay for "a paper airplane" as he put it. His view is that the company cannot even get out of the leases for the 717's until 2015 at the earliest. He sees any new small jet being used similar to jetblue (an additional fleet). Someone suggested that the new TA include language protecting current CA/FO's at their current payscale if involuntarily displaced into any SJ that comes on the property, and he thought that was a good idea and might be workable.
I didn't get the impression that he was willing to change the hotel section.
The training section seemed to be an issue for re-work as well.
There was a lot of discussion about reserves, and not even the guys calling in seemed to agree on the same issues, so I don't really know where he stands on them. But he did seem to be leaning heavily toward protecting line holders.
He said that after talking with the company that the Midwest merger seems more and more likely and that they (both the union and the company) want this done before that starts.
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