Originally Posted by
sailingfun
No I don't think we will open for less then SW. I think most pilots want a contract that puts us in their compensation rate without giving up concessions in other areas to come down to their manning rate.
That will put our overall pilot block hour costs well above SW. Its also about the minimum I am willing to take.
Be more specific. Do you want their unadjusted rate? In other words, a 12 year Captain gets $186.06/TFP? Or do you want the supposedly adjusted for TFP rate of $210? Why the focus on rate? Is this a **** measuring contest? Or do you want our domestic narrowbody pilots to actually bring home as much money as SWA pilots to support our families... and to do so working about the same number of days?
Well, which is it? Cause if you're talking anything less than some combination of rates and work rules that result in anything less than about a 50% increase in W2 for our MD-88/90 pilots (and that same percentage increase applied across the board to the rest of our fleet), then you are advocating that we should be making LESS than SWA pilots for essentially the same job. In fact, from what you have previously posted, it sure sounds to me like you are advocating that we should be making
significantly less than SWA pilots!
You're trying to play both sides of this argument. And we're not stupid.
