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Old 03-01-2012 | 02:45 PM
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Bill Lumberg
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Originally Posted by tsquare
Much regret for the now edited post..

I agree with the cost of doing business part of your post, however, where we disagree is that all that profit will come to us...
I never said all of the profit would go to us, but most of the other groups including management are back to pre-BK wages. I don't know if we can do $315 an hour again for the 777/744 guys, but it should be a lot more than SWA 737 Capts, that's for sure. They currently are fairly close in pay, but we have 36 total 777/744s, and they have over 500 737s, which means a lot more of them get paid more. Plus, our lower line values or 12 day trips for the Whale guys really limits the pay opportunity for our most senior pilots. Those SWA senior guys all get over 100 trips of pay per month, easily. And no, I don't want to fly for them, I want to be paid CLOSER to what we used to be paid, but not at 4% a year for the next 10. I want larger chunks, sooner. Those bag/ticket fees and less interest payments should help facilitate that. That's my point. Sailing is trying to justify the 4% raise per year forever method, and that isn't acceptable to many, since 30% and then an additional 17% were taken from us in those chunks during BK. They can take away in large chunks, but can't give it back at more than 4% per year? Sailing thinks so.