Mitch Rapp

You make a great point. I’ve always thought we pilots overvalued what the company thinks about pilot morale. But as you said, why spend so much money on PPD if morale wasn’t on their radar.

Congratulations, you’ve educated me. I thought I knew everything before I read your post.

hummingbear

The early 5% underscores the reality that there is some urgency by the company to maintain the goodwill of the pilots. Whether there is enough urgency to produce a timely resolution to our contract negotiations remains to be seen, but if they didn’t care at all about keeping us happy, there would be no reason to accelerate the activation of this increase.

PilotsAreDumb

If there was real urgency they’d get the TA done yesterday. Reference how fast they can get a concessionary deal done when there’s urgency. This 5% (that was already ours) is their ability to make pilots think management is “doing the right thing” an AIP is coming real soon! And it’s working on you and others.

hummingbear

100% agree that talk is cheap & the TA itself will be the ultimate show of where they stand. My point is, while some on this thread were claiming the company has no motivation to work toward a solution, there would be no reason to make this move if they didn’t care at all about keeping us happy. Remember, they put TUMI together with the cooperation of our union. Until it all blew up, they thought they were getting this contract along with the goodwill of the pilots.

Our union has only really been properly acting on our behalf for a couple of months, & we have ourselves to blame for that. But it appears to me the company is taking notice. They are seeing how quickly our COVID-era culture of “helping them help us” is trending toward FUPM, & they don’t want that. I’m not suggesting we let up the pressure based on their “showing of goodwill”. I’m suggesting their attempt to buy a bit more time is proof that the pressure is working. My advice is we don’t let up. Keep picketing & keep letting management know that the TA (or lack thereof) will be the only result we base our final judgement on.

IamNotARobot

What were the proposed reserve improvements in ta1? I’m an interviewee, wondering if global reserve was on the makeover list. Thanks-

serce

There were none, concessions infact. Making bad reserve probably the worst of all the legacies and LCC's

Otterbox

Sounds like it is already and even gives regionals a run for their money…

opheims

UAL states pilot supply MUCH stronger than demand.
Seems like the strategic messaging machine is in full effect. The article even goes on to explain that the number of "commercial" pilots aren't yet ATP pilots and the ATP pilot numbers will barely keep up with projected retirements. Doesn't really sound like the HUGE pilot wave that our company makes it out to be.

Hold the line...

JTwift

well then hurry up and hire some so we don’t all have 90 hour lines every month.

ERAUAV8TR

Why is alpa pushing the narrative that no pilot shortage exists