Nevets
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2. Of course everything is negotiable. My point is that you make absolutes about B funds yet continently leave out other things management wants to negotiate like vacation low, PBS, and dual dual.
3. We can improve reserve right now during negotiations just by wiping out ASA reserve rules and implementing XJT's reserve rules. You betrayed your selfishness with your original response that improving reserve rules would decrease QOL.
4. Your seniority is a hindrance to the company. Dual qual mitigates that. Ignoring the fact that the less total aircraft you have, the lower your QOL becomes. But you cant see past the M in me. We get it, you got yours and screw everyone else.
5. I know its not about only me. Notice that I said "only you" and not just "you." That is the difference with you. You seem to be thinking of ONLY you.
6. Management can get more savings from a single group between the two of us. And they can get more savings from merging all three groups. I'm positive the they have done the cost benefit analysis on that. Has nothing to do with Skywest pilot's wishes by the way. But there is a way of doing it. See my reply to you below.
Just because SKW does it a certain way doesn't mean that is the only way it can be done. There are examples in your contract now that were negotiated after SKW bought you guys, PBS as one small example. You just look for reason why certain things wont work in order to appease your selfishness. For starters, your assertion that dual qual increases costs has assumptions that arent set in stone. For instance, with a blended rate, training costs would actually go down. But you conveniently leave that out. Just because SKW uses an override does't mean it has to be that way for everyone else in the universe. Point being that there is ways of doing things but you have to let go the selfishness in order to think of how it could benefit the company and the pilot group as a WHOLE. Don't let your selfishness use excuses why things wont work and be beneficial to everyone.
I'm sure you'll think of other reasons why it wont work just to suit your selfish point of view. Why don't you think of reasons of how it can work and weigh the pluses and minuses?
By the way, why do you respond in blue and within quotes?
Sure, it can be done without losing anything. Its not easy but there is a process for it. Its called a single carrier certificate. Like I said, it wont be easy and it may not even be possible at this time. But there is a path to a single list that doesn't require negotiating capital.
When XJT had both the 145s and 135s, the scheduling committee would build lines that had you flying both aircraft. They build the lines where even though you were based in one base you flew through all the bases. Flying through all the bases and flying both aircraft in order to increase productivity of the pilots. This prevented the problem that you see in your 200s only doing short legs and decreasing productivity. You even out the productivity among all pilots and therefore making everyone equally productive. Both good for the union and the company. I would suspect that is eventually what would happen if you had dual qual. Of course this wouldn't be good for the senior guys from a QOL point of view.
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