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Old 01-30-2015, 05:19 PM
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I know someone asked earlier but is the AA contact a good thing for us or what?
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Old 01-30-2015, 05:26 PM
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I know someone asked earlier but it's the AA contact a good thing for us or what?
I think it's a good thing for us. The NMB has stated often that it views reasonableness by your standing amongst your peers. When the final pilot cost numbers are out for 2014 we will be well above any other passenger airline for the year. This will get American at least in our ballpark for 2015. The question now is how profit sharing will be factored in to the problem.
As I posted before I think we can make a solid case that it is offset cost wise by American having to make contributions to the pilot B fund and therefore we can directly compare pay table compensation rates. They will on average be 10% above us on 1 Jan 2016.
I have no idea how their work rules cost out against ours. Their pilots seem to think ours are better but I don't see a dramatic difference other then the 5:15 daily average.
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Old 01-30-2015, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
How do you know what management wants?
Management wants to cut costs in every possible way. Including profit sharing. It's their fiduciary duty to do so. That's how I know.

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You're the one who likes to remind your fellow pilots that they are line pilots and don't know anything; what makes you different?
I've never told anyone that they didn't know anything. Not even you.

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Right now the only evidence that management wants to do anything with profit sharing other than pay it each Valentine's day is an anonymous webboard poster's hearsay about an unknown person with an ALPA lanyard in the crew room talking about profit sharing. I think it may have been the one armed man.
The evidence is all around you Oberon. We've discussed it many times. If you don't want to see it, that's your prerogative.

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Old 01-30-2015, 06:20 PM
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Can someone explain how Delta calculates how much in profit sharing each pilot gets, in detail? I've seen the formula somewhere, but searching for "profit sharing" is like searching for "pilot" on this forum. Starting from company's annual profit to how much each pilot would receive. Thank you!
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Old 01-30-2015, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Elliot View Post
Anyone have any experience with the (TSO'd) UFlyMike/QC2 combo vs. the Telex 850 in the cockpit? Specifically, the 737 environment?

Thanks.
Unless you already have your own QC2s, I think you mean QC15. The 2s haven't been sold for a number of years. I've had both the UFM/QC15 and the Telex. UFM probably ranks in the top 10 bang for buck purchases I've ever made. Works great in the cockpit as well as deadheading. I wonder how much less hearing I would have lost had these been available 20 years ago.

Each have a couple of minor annoyances. The Telex doesn't work in the right seat of 3-5 -800s. They've been that way since DAL bought them. I doubt they will ever be "fixed". The UFM mike only mounts on the left ear cup.

Other than carrying a spare AAA for the Bose, the battery is really not much of an issue.

Having said all this, the QC15 is an end of life product also. They're still available [certainly used], but becoming more scarce. Apparently the plan is for UFM is to adapt to the QC25. I don't think its a done deal yet but should be close. The decision: go with QC15 now or wait for development/TSO on the QC25.

Bottom line: UFM/Bose

FWIW: we get a 10% Delta discount through Bose but you may find a better deal on a closeout QC15.

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Old 01-30-2015, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
That's a pretty strong statement. I'm sure you will be posting the evidence backing it up shortly...
Once again, the evidence is ATL reps having crew room chats with pilots asking them how much "at risk" compensation they are willing to tolerate going forward. These same conversations are happening with MEC administrators. Donatelli put out a letter referring to profit sharing as "at risk" compensation and used a negative tone about it. This is all happening while I can recall nowhere in our survey where we were asked about how much profit sharing we should try to trade because it was "at risk".

When this stuff happens, you need to pay attention. This is how our MEC works. They are exceedingly uncommunicative about their internal strategies. Thus we are forced to logically deduce what they're attempting from the opinion shaping they throw out.

A great example was in C2012 when I asked the reps and MEC admins who post here to take a pledge that they would vote against any increase in RJ's. Their absolutely uniform response was "Not one more seat, not one more pound." I continued to press them about whether that meant allowing any more RJ's, but they just gave the same uniform response. I posted that as evidence that the MEC was going to allow more jumbo RJ's and the usual suspects here went nuts. They said there would be no way that would even get past the NC, much less the reps and that I was just lying. The rest is history. It didn't make me prescient, I just paid attention to very clear evidence.

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Old 01-30-2015, 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by flyjetz View Post
Can someone explain how Delta calculates how much in profit sharing each pilot gets, in detail? I've seen the formula somewhere, but searching for "profit sharing" is like searching for "pilot" on this forum. Starting from company's annual profit to how much each pilot would receive. Thank you!
Who are you and why do you want to know?
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Old 01-30-2015, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by flyjetz View Post
Can someone explain how Delta calculates how much in profit sharing each pilot gets, in detail? I've seen the formula somewhere, but searching for "profit sharing" is like searching for "pilot" on this forum. Starting from company's annual profit to how much each pilot would receive. Thank you!
Not how it works. The formula is complicated and each pilot has different "pay hours", so the amount varies greatly.
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Old 01-30-2015, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Sink r8 View Post
Great rhetorical.

In reality, many of the people waxing poetic about C2K have never lived under it, including the Joker who is screaming it was stolen from him. Probably just over half of us have never worked for the company that gave up C2K, and none of us work for it today. Most of us who lived under it, don't even remember what was in it.

The good news is the company we actually work for (today), has a vastly different set of circumstances than the pre-reorganiztion company. I suspect this company, which already enjoys extraordinary productivity concessions from us, can afford a very good contract, that would equitably reward the various shareholders. Why aren't we talking about THAT? Why aren't we talking instead only about the financial metrics of this company, and whether there is room for RA to position it as a different sort of company, and for us to be properly rewarded?

As far as I'm concerned, the only pertinent discussion would be determining how much more above $2.7B in yearly costs we can go, while allowing the goose with the golden egg enough grain, vet visits, and whatever else it needs. Look at the cash that's moving around: isn't there enough for everyone, lest we get overly greedy?

As far as the PS goes, it has two great benefits:
1) It provides leverage as we wait for the right contract, and
2) It provides upside protection while we wait.

All it does, really, is send 20% to employees, which I guess is ~about 6% to pilots (check my math). Is our self-respect that low, that we don't think we deserve that, and an appropriate contract?

With all due respect, trying get back to C2K payrates (only) is a low bar. But talking about giving up the PS only to achieve a lesser goal is preposterous.
Great post Sink.

Except the "waxing poetic" part. Anyone that correctly uses that in a sentence is, well...waxing poetic.

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Old 01-30-2015, 06:47 PM
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Kept my stock, now it is worth 50% of my 401K
Then you're buying the beer Mr. Shmarty Pants!

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