Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
Watching this AMR filing discussed on tv it's obvious that AMR's side of the stir has been bought. The mantra is their non labor costs are equal to others but their labor contracts were far higher and sent them over the edge because their competitors got those labor costs already.
Nobody is well educated on the airline industry whatsoever. Nobody knows profitable SWA gets paid better. Hell probably a good portion of our airline pilot group doesn't know that.
The void today is nobody is standing up for the pilots, so by the end of the day pilots are down and those who have the authority to say something are nowhere to be found.
Do they? Under a "non-bankruptcy" contract, with the A and B Plans intact and paying, the "per pilot" compensation cost at AA was enhanced significantly, and it is a multiplier that SWA doesn't have (AA was better before the 03 givebacks obviously).
FYI, I think that SWA
might have higher per pilot compensation, but have
LOWER cost per pilot due to work rules, single type flying, etc.)
AMEN to the last part, it would be actually useful for the "National Voice for Pilots" to get in front of the cameras to take up our case, and make sure that EVERYONE knows that the "pilot labor costs" are not remotely part of the problem. (even if the pilot group under attack isn't part of the sandbox.)