Originally Posted by
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I bet not a single pilot at this airline want's to make less than SWA but we're talking about an initial 25%-30+% raise to come up to parity if you believe a MD88 = SWA735/717.
So are reps pushing for a 25% to 30% plus raise at the outset?
Okay. Let's look at that for a moment.
According to SWA's welcome packet for the ValuTran pilots, the average SWA Captain makes over $230,000 per year. What would it take to increase a Delta MD-88/90 Captain's pay to $230,000?
The current 12 year MD-88 and MD-90 Captain rates average to $163.17/hour. Let's assume the flying is split 50/50 between the 88 and the 90 (that's probably a little generous). At 75 hours per month, our MD-88/90 Captain would make $146,853 for the year. At 80 hours per month, he would make $156,643.20 for the year.
To bring those numbers up to $230,000 would take the following percentage increases:
$146,853 +
57% = $230,000
$156,643.20 +
47% = $230,000
Sounds to me like we need quite a bit more than a 25-30% increase to get to "parity" with SWA.
Oh... and you mentioned C2K in another post. To get the current MD-88 Captain rate to the C2K MD-88 Captain rate, it would take a 47% increase. And that's not factoring in inflation. If you factor that in, it would take a 70% increase.