Originally Posted by
Timbo
What IF...
We (and by we I mean DALPA) were able to negotiate a NEW pay rate for all the 757 replacements, ie. all 737's and all A319/320/321's, to equal 757/767 pay?
Hummmm....
Then would we be beoching about getting new (used), little airplanes?
I was very dissapointed in the last T/A, that they didn't put the 717 at the same rate as the MD88/90. What I would like to see is, all the narrow bodies, pay the same, and all the wide bodies pay the same. The arguement you make to management is, it will save you a Bazzillion dollars in training, and will reduce the need to hire, since fewer pilots will be locked up in training.
Well, we kind of set up an incentive there to get rid of the 88s didn't we? Raise 88 pay to 90 pay? Hooray! But maybe its encouragement to get rid of the 88 and push all those pilots to the lesser paying 717.
Of course, there is a catch. The 88/90 both pay less than a category where 45% of the airplanes are 34 seats smaller than the 90 and the rest are 11 seats smaller.
So that may make those rates palatable and buy us some extra time with the elongated never die 9.
Originally Posted by
contrails
Well, you know what that Patrick Henry said centuries ago.
"Give me 757s, or give me death!"
And Patrick Henry Field (PHF) now just says "GIVE ME ANYTHING BUT A CRJ-200!!!!"