Options_SLAVE
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My guess is Ricci sees the honeymoon is over. His charm and steak dinners only went so far, and the Union is towing the line and not budging when it comes to what's left on the table: Scope, pay, benefits, schedules.
SOMETHING is going down with XO Jet. Our scope will prohibit anyone doing our flying. That spells merger to me.
So now my guess is Ricci, who is a lawyer, is talking to his lawyers and seeing what would happen if he decided to merge XO Jet now, while the contract is still in negotiation.
The problem is, peak travel is a stone's throw away. Our pilots learned to fly the pledge last year very well. If he were to merge now, a war is what he'd have on his hands again, and sure, he'd have XO's Jets, but he won't have his own. XO Jet is now neck-deep in debt that needs to be paid. Options already has its own debt, and has shrunk to quality of scale problem-size, meaning, he doesn't even have enough airplanes (let alone the crews to fly them) to cover trips in an appropriate fashion. This means 4-hour repo's for 45 minute legs, which is NOT how we will make any money, let alone the disservicing that will occur for those repo's plus the fact of dealing with only 40% of his fleets "green".
Ricci's gonna screw up if he decides to protract negotiations and fight further on this. His best bet is to get the contract DONE. Then he will have pilots who will be more than happy to help out however they can for peak travel, will definitely go above and beyond (which will NOT happen until then), and will be happy to assist the XOJet merger - especially if their pay is better than ours, that's what an LOA is for.
If he merges without a contract, he's gonna have the smelliest sh!t sandwich he's ever seen, and an already embittered pilot group will now be even more embittered.
It isn't rocket surgery what needs to happen for the good of the Company. Let's hope he's smarter than that.
One thing's for sure. The past 4 weeks Ricci hasn't even been in negotiations and even Hertzberg's been out of the picture. Nothing's getting accomplished and the Union's twiddling their thumbs. They are just trying to wait as long as possible before flipping the switch to turn the war back on, but that's what looks like is going to happen.
Too bad. Oh, well. Where's my pen? I need to start doing exercises with my fingers so they are strong enough to handle what's coming.
SOMETHING is going down with XO Jet. Our scope will prohibit anyone doing our flying. That spells merger to me.
So now my guess is Ricci, who is a lawyer, is talking to his lawyers and seeing what would happen if he decided to merge XO Jet now, while the contract is still in negotiation.
The problem is, peak travel is a stone's throw away. Our pilots learned to fly the pledge last year very well. If he were to merge now, a war is what he'd have on his hands again, and sure, he'd have XO's Jets, but he won't have his own. XO Jet is now neck-deep in debt that needs to be paid. Options already has its own debt, and has shrunk to quality of scale problem-size, meaning, he doesn't even have enough airplanes (let alone the crews to fly them) to cover trips in an appropriate fashion. This means 4-hour repo's for 45 minute legs, which is NOT how we will make any money, let alone the disservicing that will occur for those repo's plus the fact of dealing with only 40% of his fleets "green".
Ricci's gonna screw up if he decides to protract negotiations and fight further on this. His best bet is to get the contract DONE. Then he will have pilots who will be more than happy to help out however they can for peak travel, will definitely go above and beyond (which will NOT happen until then), and will be happy to assist the XOJet merger - especially if their pay is better than ours, that's what an LOA is for.
If he merges without a contract, he's gonna have the smelliest sh!t sandwich he's ever seen, and an already embittered pilot group will now be even more embittered.
It isn't rocket surgery what needs to happen for the good of the Company. Let's hope he's smarter than that.
One thing's for sure. The past 4 weeks Ricci hasn't even been in negotiations and even Hertzberg's been out of the picture. Nothing's getting accomplished and the Union's twiddling their thumbs. They are just trying to wait as long as possible before flipping the switch to turn the war back on, but that's what looks like is going to happen.
Too bad. Oh, well. Where's my pen? I need to start doing exercises with my fingers so they are strong enough to handle what's coming.
