Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
I'm not advocating that we go backwards in DC contribution. But consider this. As a domestic narrowbody Captain last year I made about $130,000 on my W2. The average SWA domestic narrowbody Captain (even reserves like me) made over $230,000.
With our 14% DC contribution, I had about $18,200 contributed by the company into my accounts. With SWA's 9.3% DC match, their average Captain had $21,390 contributed by SWA into his/her account(s). Last time I checked, $21,390 is greater than $18,200. I'm just sayin'...
But I think we should be able to reasonably expect SWA W2 compensation as a bare minimum WITHOUT any reduction to our DC contribution percentage.
This is such a great post. It illustrates how much of our "problems" with the SWAPA contract are really just based on ignorance of what's in it. And DALPA wants nothing more than to continue the lies about the SWAPA contract.
So now acl65pilot...what say you regarding this? Now that the DC contributions are not an issue, what's the next excuse as to why you wouldn't want the SWAPA contract? ESPECIALLY given the fact that the NMB would have no leg to stand on if they tried to park us.
Carl