Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
Much has been made about the Southwest welcome packet and the numbers they post about how well they are doing. I believe SWAPA is doing a good job representing their pilot and I am not trying to bash them, but I think they might have played a little fast and loose with their numbers in their opening presentation.
Pure BS alfa. Is this the best that the daily DALPA apologist talking points can come up with. SWAPA did not print anything that wasn't totally accurate. Totally.
Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
For instance much has been made about a SWA Captain making $230,000 per year and working 12 days a month. Let’s examine those numbers. Their current pay (from the packet) is maxed out at $186.06 per TRIP which means their HOURLY pay rate is about $212. Divide $212 into $230,000 and you get 1085 hours or 90.5 hours per month. If they only worked 12 days that means they got paid 7.5 hours per day, yet they say their average duty day is 9 hours. In fact, that assumes that all of their Captains are at the maximum pay, if you take into account pilots that are not yet at their maximum then the numbers get worse. I am sorry but that is just not possible. My guess is that they are playing a few games here.
As usual, you guess wrong. And I know you know that. This is very good news though. To see the DALPA insiders relegated to guessing and heresay from their "friends" at SWA means they cannot refute the facts of that ValuTran welcome package. Try as they might.
Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
For instance, they say that the majority of regular lines have 17 days off per month. They say their reserves have 15/16 days off per month. Yet their entire pilot group averages 18 days off per month. That doesn’t add up. What they are doing is taking into account reserve days not worked, sick days, vacation days, and other days where you were paid but didn’t actually fly; not dishonest, but if you are going to compare then you have to compare apples to apples.
It adds up perfectly, as has already been explained with FACTS. You guys need to come up with better talking points.
Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
For instance Delta pilots average about 28-29 days of vacation per year that equates to about 16 days of pay. They also average around 15 days of sick time per year. If you then add in reserve days not worked, time spent awaiting OE, and many other items, you can quickly get to Delta pilots averaging 12 days or less “worked” per month. I don’t want to get into definitional games here, but remember, the SWAPA message is to convince the AirTran pilots to accept a highly unbalanced seniority integration so they are the ones playing a few games.
Pure BS from top to bottom. The SWAPA document is totally accurate in every way. No amount of lying on DALPA's part will change that. Keep it up though slick...I can almost hear the new DPA cards being signed as we speak.
Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
My point is that people take this pamphlet, which is meant to sway the AirTran pilots’ view of this merger, and try to make it like it’s a true contract comparison. It is not. If ALPA tried to play these types of semantic games with you, you would cry foul.
Hilarious!! All you ALPA insiders DO is play semantic games. LMAO!!
Carl