Originally Posted by
TheManager
You like that same rear view mirror as Slowplay does too.
So I'll humour you. Doug Parker just raised the comps in the neighborhood. He is valuing US and AA the same as us. Smisek just couldn't. O gain his man chowder when he was briefed on our TA and he quickly held it as an example to his pilots as a doable deal.
We have taken the lowball offer. We are excepting much less than the median on the survey while funding the substandard increase by cutting profit sharing. We can do better and if the MEC keeps insisting that this is the best we can do, then time for a new MEC.
We all know Parker. Enough said on that. And Smizek would have to increase his pilot pay costs 40% at least. Look at our proposed 744 and 777 rates. How many do we have currently? 16 of each? UA has 100 of them total, 70 777s (both UA and CAL), and I believe twice the 744s we have. All of them, thousands of pilots, move up $50 an hour? Then they have horrible work rules. How much will that cost? A huge, huge amount. To top it off, they had a bad 1st quarter. You can bet a certain CEO we know knows all of this, and bringing up pay by about 20% over 3 years also is a strategic move to affect competitors too who may HAVE TO raise their own groups' rates.