Originally Posted by
ripn6
I had a 777 Capt. in the jumpseat last week. He was talking about the 100 seater announcement and that ALPA didn't know what they were going to do about them. I said, "what do you mean." He said, "Would you fly Captain on it for less that your making in the right seat of the 320?" I said "We have 100 seat pay rates. It's called a DC-9 and it's more than I make, are you suggesting we give that flying away to get pay raises?" He said, "Well, no, but ALPA doesn't know what they're going to do." I said, "They better know what they're going to do or they won't be around very much longer." It was clear the he and I had a different Idea of "what to do" about the 100 seater.
Lets just hope that "CAPT Clueless" is not the norm. I also don't know what "
ALPA didn't know what they were going to do about them" means. Regarding taking a pay cut, I guess he is not familiar with our current narrow-body FO rates. I cant really fault him on that (although it is disappointing) but hopefully you were able to enlighten him.
Scoop