Originally Posted by
padre2992
Flamer,
I don't believe that a 43% pay raise and 100% scope recapture is attainable in 5 years. By anyone, ALPA or otherwise. The APA wrote that opera and it ends with the fat lady singing the blues. If a lot of guys felt that way, even that wouldn't matter, because the NMB would never let one airline leapfrog every other airline on the planet by such a significant margin.
43% puts us approximately into parity with SWA pay. We would NOT be leapfrogging every other airline on the planet with that type of increase. We'd just be equalizing our pay to SWA and not even surpassing them.
I don't know what category you're in... but take a look at your W2 from last year and compare it to the W2 of a typical SWA pilot (over $230K for a Captain and over $140K for a First Officer). I'll bet if you're a narrowbody pilot who doesn't get a really large number of greenslips that it takes a heck of a lot more than 11% to reach that level.