Originally Posted by
Wasatch Phantom
Yes, we got a 4% increase last July 1, but historically speaking any increases after the amendable date are paid to the pilots as "retro pay". So the new contract got you six months of a 4% increase.
I don't believe the UAL or CAL pilots got full retro for the three years they spent negotiating their contract. I don't believe the AA or US pilots will get full retro for the many years they've spent negotiating. You may be assuming too much if you think that somehow we would have completed section 6 any faster than the other guys and received full retro for years of flat wages, when others have not.
The TVM means different things for different folks. If you leave $100k in the company's pockets while you negotiate, then get maybe half of that back in the form of a signing bonus, like the UCAL pilots did, then you're already starting in the hole at the DOS in just cash, we haven't even started to add in lost earnings on the cash left in the company's pockets.