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forgot to bid
I hope I'm wrong. Just going off the last 5 trips. Keeping a tally. I see an enormous misunderstanding of just how much SWA pays. SWA is max pay with max days off. If you want long layovers to drink beer, it's called Stugart, bid it.
My question, these pilots seem to have little expectation. Is there any pro ALPA pilots here who want less than what equal pay for equal work with Southwest pilots? Are there any pro ALPA pilots who want 88/9 pay below SWA 717 pay? Any willing to talk about what they think is fair to demand?
Guys I fly with want SWA pay, but realize it may be tough to get the same schedules because SWA doesn't always fly through one hub. We seem to do FLA turns from ATL, and then up to ORD or BUF. SWA and now Airtran pilots will start in one hub, and then fly across the country with 5 stops to the next hub. Not the same model. But, we have premium passengers, who connect in hubs to fly to international cities, all with high fees.
If the SWA 717 rates are the same as their 737 rates, which in reality equal our 777 or 744 rates, I think we should be able to get a big raise at least. No 15% over 3 years crud. Educate your Captains, and remind them that SWA's 737 rates are equal to our large widebody rates, (even though they all average 105 trips per month or 105 hours with credit), and we have 32 or so 744s and 777s, while SWA alone (not counting Airtran's planes) has over 500 737s. How many more of their pilots make a lot more than our Widebody pilots? It's just amazing, and sad. Tell your LEC reps HECK NO.