Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
From the what I can tell, it is not that people are "thrilled" to work that amount of time. It comes down to a 42% pay cut and the simple fact that they got to pay the bills. To add insult to injury most now have kids in college to add to that pay cut. Yep, it's ugly.
I think everyone would like work rules that would allow the pay they want with the time off they want.
Also, most of the "young'uns of which you refer to have been doing this gig for over 15 years. We are agree with ya.
I wonder, how about just FedEx rates with caps on flying but better credit rules and increase reserve min to 75.
FedEx narrowbody pay nearly equals SWA pay but of course they also have WB pay scales. They're not restoration but make it up in credit, take it from 5.15 to 6.30 but cap the flying. Just throwing that out, I'm not going to run the macroeconomics spreadsheet on it but when it comes to the staffing formula screw with the credit and cap until you achieve no loss staffing.
Also, the trip parking. Any correlation to the MD's off the 777 which is the type of category likely to be playing the trip parking game?
Originally Posted by
contrails
Incorrect.
Ask any SWA pilot what a typical monthly schedule looks like without sick time or vacation or any leave of absence.
From the conversations I've had on PM with SWA pilots I have to agree with contrails.
The $25K in one month salary I mentioned before again was this: "16 days reserve, about 86 hours flown, no vacation or silly business, over $25,000 flight pay only (not including 401k, profit sharing, blah blah blah.)"
For the math challenged like me, $25K/mo is $300K in a year. Above the average quoted to the FL pilots.