Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Dude.........you really need to get a grip. "Us" guys didn't do a damn thing. ALPA negotiated Eagle's contract and they're mid-seniority. Additionally, as stated before Eagle's pay is in the middle of the pact, competition wise.
Are you like your pal in advocating Eagle take further pay cuts to............well, what on god's earth ARE you talking about ?
For a guy who states his QOL is awesome and that he couldn't care less about upgrade, you're all over the place in the opposite direction.
If your plan is truly to retire at Eagle, you'd think you'd be making the opposite argument and claims and holding firm on the best compensation contract possible, so you have something when you've paid those dues. Instead you're doing the exact opposite bellyaching about how those prior to you screwed you out of something by doing the exact thing you should be supporting...........but glaringly are not.
Sorry.......I just can't buy this bill of goods.
Idle hands are the devil's workshop.
I don't want the best compensation for myself, I want a fair and equitable compensation for the pilot group as a whole. Making 100K vs 85K after taxes is about what? 8K take home difference after fed,med,ss,state,etc taxes. It's really spit. I'd rather take a paycut and see the money goes to a coworker that's more underpaid. Heck, after 20 years here, I get 100% of 8% match. That's an extra 8K extra in compensation alone, about 4 months of new hire pay.
Anyways, so now you're at your AA, you'd have no problem then for me to use the same logic your generation used then right? Since I only want to do domestic flying.
Eagle CA flies A320 for what you guys would do it for -$10/hr while new hires subsidizing the costs by topping out at $40/hr. This would be GREAT for ME, but I would never endorse it because I don't have the ME ME ME attitude like your generation.