FurloughedAgain
Cabin Heating & Air Tech.
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70 - 120 seat negotiations
CAUTION: ALPA NEGOTIATORS AT WORK (hide the kids and stuff your savings in the mattress!)
General,
I certainly hope that you are able to secure orders for an aircraft that will be able to bridge the gap between the 70 passenger CRJ-700 and the MD88 and 737 fleets.
I also hope that your negotiators will be a little more forward-thinking than my former-coworkers at US Airways were and will secure pay and benefits that are appropriate for that size aircraft. The MidAtlantic pay/benefit/airline-within-an-airline fiasco is damaging to the entire industry and even the entire profession. If the Delta pilots negotiate "Eagle wages and workrules" for their 70-120 seat product the bar will have been permanently lowered, further eroding the profession.
Many of those who have been "recalled" to US Airways Embraer Division have bypassed the recall rather than accepting the recall and flying the aircraft for such substandard payrates. There should NEVER be a time when a mainline furloughee makes the CHOICE to decline a recall. (unless he/she has been hired in the interim by FedEx, Southwest, etc...) The US Airways ALPA negotiators should be emberassed.
So best of luck in your upcoming negotiations and with the pending recall of the Delta furloughees.
Respectfully,
FurloughedAgain
CL65 Copilot
PS - Did you get the 'Dukes' DVD set yet? http://www.warnervideo.com/dukesofhazzard/
CAUTION: ALPA NEGOTIATORS AT WORK (hide the kids and stuff your savings in the mattress!)
General,
I certainly hope that you are able to secure orders for an aircraft that will be able to bridge the gap between the 70 passenger CRJ-700 and the MD88 and 737 fleets.
I also hope that your negotiators will be a little more forward-thinking than my former-coworkers at US Airways were and will secure pay and benefits that are appropriate for that size aircraft. The MidAtlantic pay/benefit/airline-within-an-airline fiasco is damaging to the entire industry and even the entire profession. If the Delta pilots negotiate "Eagle wages and workrules" for their 70-120 seat product the bar will have been permanently lowered, further eroding the profession.
Many of those who have been "recalled" to US Airways Embraer Division have bypassed the recall rather than accepting the recall and flying the aircraft for such substandard payrates. There should NEVER be a time when a mainline furloughee makes the CHOICE to decline a recall. (unless he/she has been hired in the interim by FedEx, Southwest, etc...) The US Airways ALPA negotiators should be emberassed.
So best of luck in your upcoming negotiations and with the pending recall of the Delta furloughees.
Respectfully,
FurloughedAgain
CL65 Copilot
PS - Did you get the 'Dukes' DVD set yet? http://www.warnervideo.com/dukesofhazzard/