Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
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.
Your 50% number could never be supported in front of the nmb. The actual hourly adusted rate for SW is 212 an hour not 210. That is the rate I am using. Our rate for a 737 CA will be 181 or so on 1 Jan. As far as days worked again many here are taking a number out of context. The pamphlet put out to Airtran stated over the last 5 years SW pilots averaged 12 days of work per month. What that means is that when you average in days a reserve pilot worked with days a line pilot worked and then account for vacation, sick, mil leave, dropped trips ect.. the average was 12 days. The average will be less then 12 for Delta pilots over the same days. When the 2011 numbers come out the total compensation for Delta will be even closer then 2010 with SW. We had a huge number of double pay trips, a 4 percent raise and 6 percent profit sharing. The 2010 numbers again from MIT were 166,000 for SW pilots on average and 142,000 for Delta pilots on average. Go before the NMB and throw out 50% to get even and you will not look good or even smart. The exact numbers we will there for both sides to see.
I do however believe our goal should be for the MD88 to come up to SW. That slants the numbers more in our favor.