Originally Posted by
tsquare
Blue: Exactly my point. hockey thinks that chasing the money to SWA will put him in a better position. Personally, I think he is blinded by the glint of sunshine off his colleagues shiny new car, and that fuels his jealousy. (Again, I think that is incredibly sad on his part)
I think he's just looking at the FACT that the average F/O at SWA is making over $140K (more than I made as a Captain last year!) and not working any more days than the average F/O at Delta. Will that disparity continue into the future? Who knows? But I do know that GK's letter indicated he was interested in a "productivity" solution and not pay cuts. So what if they have to work an average of 13 to 14 days instead of the 12 days they average now? And with us... we currently have a union that's acting as if our contract is a new baseline from which to negotiate traditional improvements. Unless our line pilots wake up and force a change (whether that's DPA or somehow forcing ALPA to change), it's not looking very promising that we're going to significantly close that gap between current Delta pay and current SWA pay.
Originally Posted by
tsquare
Red: I disagree. And I am not going to argue the point here. It is my opinion, and we will see in a few years who is correct. I do know this... in the merger world, 1+1 does not = 2. Never has.. never will.
Man, aren't we all painfully aware of that!
I hope you weren't one of those guys that thought we had to do a merger to be "too big to fail and have a seat at the bailout table." That proved to be a bunch of crap. And now we're all stuck with a shrinking airline and backwards movement.