New AAI ALPA Strategy: Fire SWA Haters!

[shootr]

Having been in contact with a few on the NC, your scenario of a proposal being sent to the SWAPA pilots that has any possibility of being turned down is highly unlikely. They'd rather go to arbitration.

shootr

 

[SWA/FO]

They'd rather go to arbitration.

Who? You lost me.

 

[shootr]

Who? You lost me.

Our (SWAPA's) NC would rather go to arbitration than send us (the members) a proposal that we are likely to turn down as a group. If our NC is willing to send us something, it's probably an OK deal for us. With that in mind...I'll still read it, evaluate it, and vote for my best interest which may still be a "no". Better?

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[ArcadiaMaxima]

Our (SWAPA's) NC would rather go to arbitration than send us (the members) a proposal that we are likely to turn down as a group. If our NC is willing to send us something, it's probably an OK deal for us. With that in mind...I'll still read it, evaluate it, and vote for my best interest which may still be a "no". Better?

shootr

Kind of reminds me of TA1. I trust the NC but just because they send something to vote does not mean it is a good deal...you can't be serious?

 

[K-Mart]

To my SWA brothers:

If we reached a negotiated deal that was passed by AAI and declined by SWAPA, which led to an arbitrated list "worse" than the negotiated list for SWAPA how could GK possibly hold that against the AAI troops?

One of the concerns here is that anything we would vote to pass, you'll shoot down. I'm not saying an arbitrated list will favor us, but my scenario is a possibility (however remote it may be).

He wouldn't hold it against any of the AAI guys. He'd probably laugh at the SWAPA guys and say "Told you".

Mr. Kelly is not our (AAI and SWA) friend though. He really could care less about pilots and believes we are paid way way too much. I don't trust him.

 

[Lear70]

In the past couple of weeks, just one. In the past couple of months, two of the three officers have left, one from recall, and one from resignation. No NC positions have changed.

You forgot to mention one who narrowly avoided recall, then through his own lack of paying attention, lost his office because he changed bases then forgot to submit for council bypass, thus solving the situation.

Straight out of the file of "Things you can't make up"...

 

[Taco Rocket]

Mr. Kelly is not our (AAI and SWA) friend though. He really could care less about pilots and believes we are paid way way too much. I don't trust him.

Finally a dose of reality. It's been amusing reading numerous posts where everyone thinks he is going to double his unit labor costs for the sake of "culture."

You are overpaid relative to your peers on similar equipment. It's a fact. Couple this with slimming margins in a saturated market, and a stock that has gone nowhere in almost 10 years, and... well -- you figure it out.

 

[GoodTimes]

Good one Taco. Another pilot spouting off about stock price, labor costs and how to run an airline. You missed your calling.

 

[slaquer5]

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[jonjuan]

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Smart boy....