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On 12/24/2002 12:54:09 PM A320 Driver wrote:
Good post Cav,
It's the person, not the job description.
A320 Driver
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Absolutely so, most pilots I know are top shelf; I hunt and fish with a few, and I'm damn choosey about who I let around me with a loaded firearm. There are jackasses wherever you go, although I will have to say the pilot jackasses I've had the misfortune of dealing with have raised jackassery to an art form.
As far as the pension deal, the way I see it, when ALPA sneezes, agents get pneumonia. ALPA will not stand by and unilaterally take cuts - they're saying everybody has to give. I'd be good with that if we started from the same baseline, but we didn't. I'm not going to go thru all of that again; the fact is to meet the latest bogey number, fleet is going to have thousands of current mainline agents converted to express. As money is fungible, some of that savings is going towards U's pension liability - and agents are not part of the pension problem.
I'm also cool with pilots making a bunch more than I do, and retiring with a bunch more than I do; it's the asymetrical outcomes, percentage-wise, that drive me up the wall.
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On 12/24/2002 12:54:09 PM A320 Driver wrote:
Good post Cav,
It's the person, not the job description.
A320 Driver
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Absolutely so, most pilots I know are top shelf; I hunt and fish with a few, and I'm damn choosey about who I let around me with a loaded firearm. There are jackasses wherever you go, although I will have to say the pilot jackasses I've had the misfortune of dealing with have raised jackassery to an art form.
As far as the pension deal, the way I see it, when ALPA sneezes, agents get pneumonia. ALPA will not stand by and unilaterally take cuts - they're saying everybody has to give. I'd be good with that if we started from the same baseline, but we didn't. I'm not going to go thru all of that again; the fact is to meet the latest bogey number, fleet is going to have thousands of current mainline agents converted to express. As money is fungible, some of that savings is going towards U's pension liability - and agents are not part of the pension problem.
I'm also cool with pilots making a bunch more than I do, and retiring with a bunch more than I do; it's the asymetrical outcomes, percentage-wise, that drive me up the wall.
