Reality Check
Everyone is focused on the EBA, but the EBA is the effect, not the cause.
If anyone looks back on many years of commentary on this subject, one thing is crystal clear. The common thread in unsatisfactory EBA’s is that the same team of Sunnies pilots have negotiated them all, and you keep voting them up! So stop whinging about the EBA.
Are you a Sunnies pilot and are unhappy with the EBA? Then vote some pilots onto the Pilot Council who are more representative of the pilot group, and will actually take you seriously, rather than bagging Eastern negotiators and prancing around openly boasting about how they don’t care about you!
Until you get a new negotiation team, you are howling at the moon. The things that should have been part of the negotiations (frozen ATPLs getting 65%, overtime added to DHA as compensation for loss of lifestyle) will remain firmly in the ‘never ever going to happen’ category.
When it comes to EBAs, unless you change your negotiation team, nothing will change. So, nominate and vote for change on the pilot council and EBA negotiation team, or stop whinging.