Originally Posted by
Bill Lumberg
If he's still an FO at Southwest, he will probably continue to be one for awhile thanks to stagnation and the Airtran merger. If you move up the ladder here due to the 717s and 20% pay raises all around within 3 years, you'll probably catch up to him, and maybe pass him. They really don't have many mandatory retirements scheduled in the near future at all either.
We are still so far below the curve on work rules that even though our 2015 payrates will finally reach their 2012 rates, we will still be making considerably less than them.
This TA did little to help with the soft money.