As far as scope, I suggest you cruise to the bottom of your T/A and check out side letter L6:1-3. This language makes your scope worthless. You can change the language all you want to match LUS language. It would be a little too late since around 466 positions are already outsourced to folks NOT on the flight attendant seniority list. This is fact. This is a big loss for LUS. This agreement actually allows up to 2.75% when 25,000 flight attendants are on seniority list, not to include 394 people that are already based in South America. It also does not state what happens after there are more than 25,000 flight attendants. It also opens door to using European nationals. Paragraph 6 is a good read. The company can use foreign nationals on ALL point to point flying between foreign countries. This is very important to consider with potential growth. Think it wont happen? Think about a flight such as Tokyo to Kuala Lumpur. This may not be a big deal to American folks because they have had to deal with it since 1990. You can make any excuse in the world, but this guts Scope! By the way this is over 1000 flight attendant positions! That is more than are based in DCA! That is a lot of potential future monies lost for the LUS Guys and gals.
I think some don't have an understanding of the jumpseat issue. What I am talking about is not the system to award the jumpseat. I understand that will be voted on by members. I am speaking of the T/A language which potentially knocks someone off the jumpseat for weight and balance. This does not currently happen on the US side. Big loss for them! Ask any commuter.
A $3000 dollar taxed ONE TIME subsidy doe not begin to make up for the loss of the insurance system for the US folks. I will not get into political discussion about current healthcare law. Who knows what it looks like in 2018. It does not take away from the fact that the value of the cost savings the company receives is much more than a one time subsidy.
Doug Parker can tell any union anything, does not mean in the end that a certain thing won't end up in there. This is called negotiations for a reason. The only sure way not to get something you want is to not negotiate it. In the end, it is still a concession that probably has much more value than it was given. There is a reason Doug is telling every union they can't have it!