Originally Posted by
CVG767A
I'm not baiting you, nor am I Southwest bashing. I really want to know.
For what it's worth, I'm glad that you guys were able to keep your pay rates when much of the rest of the industry collapsed over the last decade. Because of Southwest, we have a point of reference for recovering our contract.
As for Southwest coming to ATL, that's not even on my radar. When Southwest starts flying from New York to Prague and Venice, then I may take notice.
I'm having trouble with you saying one thing, and a government form saying something else. Why are the numbers so different?
Sorry, got carried away. I assumed you were flamebaiting. Personal flaw on my part.
Long and short, huge error in SWA 2010 Part 10 submission. Looks to me like they had counted flight attendant management numbers with pilots, along with another weird change. In order for the submitted number to be correct, we would have had to grown by 15% in 2010. I don't think that we've ever managed that in 40 years and we most certainly didn't do it without adding a single pilot to the seniority list. All of our management pilots are already on our seniority list, as are our medical and military leave types. My personal suspicions are that it could have been a move to lessen an apparent increase in SWA management compensation, but that's a topic for another thread.
I just don't know yet how the total compensation numbers changed. If they included the other workgroup's compensation with pilot compensation, then the avg SWA will be over my $193,000 estimate. If they only erred on the pilot numbers side, it should be around $193,000.
How it happened, I don't know. Been trying all day. I am serious, there will be a major revision that shows up in the numbers next week.