Pinnacle asking 7% from pilots
#421
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Joined APC: Oct 2011
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Nothing but liquidity.
Delta gets to play the RFP game to keep carrier costs in check with competition. Finance 101. We need liquidity and DL needs a pawn. Hello -900's now owned by DL and $100M in the PNCL coffer to run the operation before DL's contractual rate increase.
Chicken, meet egg.
Delta gets to play the RFP game to keep carrier costs in check with competition. Finance 101. We need liquidity and DL needs a pawn. Hello -900's now owned by DL and $100M in the PNCL coffer to run the operation before DL's contractual rate increase.
Chicken, meet egg.
#422
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#424
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I look at it as a good thing. It seems to essentially be a 3 month interest free loan. While this may put off the inevitable, it means that the company's negotiations have at least achieved something with one party.
Hopefully Delta's positive earnings reports will give us more leverage in renegotiating our contracts with them.
#426
Im guessing bad, anyone hear about the FAs getting WARN letters today?
Save money for 3 months then file BK and park the planes, I can see it now...
Save money for 3 months then file BK and park the planes, I can see it now...
The company is now able to keep cash on hand for what their payments would have been on these aircraft.
#427
The pay cut is a moot point for profitability and it is insulting that SM thinks we can't do the math to realize a 7% cut for 1 year would do nothing.
The real problem is the contracts we have. My brief experience with United has shown me that UAL values cheapness over anything else. The way the A terminal at IAD is run seems like they are willing to spend a dollar to save a penny. The Q is an efficient airplane that should easily make money. It would be in the best interest for UAL to modify the contract to keep Pinnacle around because it would cost a lot more money to start up a Q400 operation at another regional. However, I cannot imagine UAL being able to comprehend the idea of paying more money upfront to save money in the future. All it will take is GoJet to say they will buy Qs and underbid us.
It is a little depressing, but management always wins. They have more information than us and have been planning this for months before they ever said anything to us. They will get their pay cut one way or the other. It is not hard to find a judge who would grant a 25% pay cut and undo the ISL.
The real problem is the contracts we have. My brief experience with United has shown me that UAL values cheapness over anything else. The way the A terminal at IAD is run seems like they are willing to spend a dollar to save a penny. The Q is an efficient airplane that should easily make money. It would be in the best interest for UAL to modify the contract to keep Pinnacle around because it would cost a lot more money to start up a Q400 operation at another regional. However, I cannot imagine UAL being able to comprehend the idea of paying more money upfront to save money in the future. All it will take is GoJet to say they will buy Qs and underbid us.
It is a little depressing, but management always wins. They have more information than us and have been planning this for months before they ever said anything to us. They will get their pay cut one way or the other. It is not hard to find a judge who would grant a 25% pay cut and undo the ISL.
#429
memo just went out eliminating the CRW-DCA routes for the Saab making boston all thats left of the usairways express flying for us
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