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ECAMACTIONSCOMPLETE
I’m over the whole thing. We threatened PIA to try and get the company to negotiate properly (like we did successfully in 2015) and it has had the opposite effect. What are we fighting for exactly now? The union has agreed to 3%. We’re essentially arguing over the costing of a minimum daily credit. I’d sign the current EBA plus 3 per cent increases tomorrow just to have this disaster behind me.
Have a chat to senior pilots within, I don’t think you have going off your conclusion. I assume you are a cadet also going off that attitude, having seen this exact mantra across many of the young ones.
What Simon wants next is for the negotiation to continue. At this stage it’s not. We are currently sitting in the company defensive stage. The next stage is hopefully negotiation, however, if it took Tiger 4 months to get to this stage. It can take 12 months, 24 months for all I care. Will it cost us an executive or two along the way, probably, but I doubt anyone cares. There isn’t going to be another chance in the future should the pilot body give in right now, to the company. They will just use it against us in the future.
Tiger was was the same albeit not as public. Tiger Management started talking about 4 months into PIA. It then took 3 odd months of negotiating to arrive at the conclusion. It’s fairly clear it’s going to take longer here, but I think we all saw that coming.
Have some patience. Otherwise those TT and VA pilots will be earning 20% more than us for eternity. The gap will only get larger. A Tiger and Virgin pilot will earn 25% more than a Jetstar pilot mid next decade if you sign today. Think about that.