Originally Posted by
tsquare
Want them here at mainline? What would YOU fly it for? Without knowing what each airline's benefit package is worth to it's respective pilots, let's play a game, but we have to make an assumption. Let's say that mainline's benefits package is worth 25% more than DCI's. Would that be fair? IT would mean that in order to compare payrates, we would have to subtract 25% from DCIs payrates in order to make them cost neutral to come to mainline. Ready...? A 7 year captain at Comair makes $79/hour. Care to do the math and tell me if we could fly them on mainline for that?
This is small potatoes in the big scheme of things. They will be capped... there is no reason to ever revisit that.. and it rids ous of 50s. There is too much obsession here.
We have payrates at DL for the 900s, and the CA rates are quite in line with what the actual pilots flying 900s at the regionals make. The FOs make more, management wants the whipsaw, and management wants a way out of the leases.
I don't have a problem with the theory, I have a problem with the sheer amount of additional jumbo RJs we are allowing in, and the amount of 70's and 50's allowed to remain. This TA doesn't rid us of 50s, either. It puts us about 5 years ahead on the count, and provides more 70's than would be around in 2015 to remain. (98 are committed to through 2015.. why not make that the cap?... don't forget that only 144 76 seaters are committed to through 2015)
Oh, and let me know how many year 7 Comair captains there are...
Speaking of capped. Wasn't 255 a cap? Hasn't that now been revisited? Or were you sucked in by the all caps "HARD CAP" from the bullet points? We're changing one cap for another cap.