Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The cost for a full restoration contract with the exception of retirement would be about 2 billion dollars a year. That would include a pay raise in the 65 percent range (contract 2k plus inflation and hiring 4000 pilots who would be needed when we transitioned back to the restored work rules.
Here is the important question. If DALPA opens for a full restoration contract and states they will except nothing less and 4 years later we are still working under this POS contract and benched by the NMB is that a victory?
If however DALPA opens for less and is able to get a contract done on or near the amendable date with meaningful gains thats sets a new bar for other airlines but far short of restoration and 4 years later we are negotiating are next contract is that a failure?
The thing we need to remember is there are lots of ways to make more money other than a 50-60% pay raise.
Just a few off the top of my head: (no particular priority)
1. Better rigs (6hrs./calendar day (no more 10:30 3 days),
2. More pay for each day of vacation - 6 hours/day sounds good. Pay and credit for vacation.
3. Better distributed training pay (how about 1 minute of pay for every minute we have to watch the CD)
4. Better training pay for CQ (how about 6 hours/day including the travel day
5. DC plan increasing from 14% to at least 20%.
Those are just a few quickies to make more money with the same or less work. Add that to say a 25% first year and 5% a year after that and you'll see some real nice increases in W2's with LESS work - if you need even more then you can work more. These numbers are just used for illustration purposes.