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Originally Posted by
iahflyr
Everyone seems to forget this. SWA pilots are paid the most because they are the most efficient. UAL will have X amount of dollars to pay enough pilots for the company. We can either be more efficient and make more money (like SWA), or be less efficient and make less money (like we currently do). The company is fine either way. They care about the bottom line. It is our choice which one we are more interested in.
One of my favorite phrases of wisdom is to always try and understand a problem from the other person's point of view. I think everyone needs to understand this before completely shooting down the need for 70 seat jets.
I am all for profit sharing. I would much rather have some sort of control over how much money I would make. I think management would be more interested in paying pilots more when they are doing well, and less when the company is not doing so well. This would help discourage the work slowdowns and ****ing away of efficiency we have noticed more and more. Ask a SWA pilot how much they see this happen over there. And yet we all wonder why they make more money.
Many parts of the equation are missing. SWA and UCAL are like apples and oranges(SWA mgmt wants to run a functional corp). When I was a newbie I believed the BS about SWA model of efficiency to justify SWA's contract, but no more. Obviously a contract can be to expensive, but I'm never going to let mgmt poor mouth me into voting on a substandard contract. The fact that the US legacy carriers have a monopoly now makes this even more true. According to mgmt, UCAL's international flying is premium. "than mgmt why am I making 30% less than a SWA pilot with 3-4 fewer days off". Our 777 pilots make less. Yet five years ago SWA's #1 mgmt guy made the same as CAL's #4 guy.