Originally Posted by
horrido27
And 9 years later.. after flying at a Mainline he has a different opinion.. so what?
If you're betting that an Internet Post from years back is going to influence the Arbitrators, you are not giving those 3 people the credit they deserve.
Motch
PS> My opinions on some things have changed dramatically over a decade, and in some cases they haven't changed at all and instead have gotten stronger~
But I thought it was important to look back at the past decade to get "the whole picture"
Just found this Neal quote:
This is one way of looking at it...another way would be to look at total CASM numbers and then even more importantly, pilot contribution to that CASM number. We should also be looking at a company's pilot pay hours compared to a company's pilot hard hours flown. One can't just look at one metric alone. But the bottom line is that 95% of the time in the airline business, airplanes with more seats will pay more for pilots. I'm not saying it is right or wrong, but generally, this is how it is. Of course, we can then look at a SWA captain on the 737 versus an American 767 captain, but once again, we can't just look at the rate - we have to look at the work rules, type of operation, pension/retirement setup, so on and so forth.
-Neal
Really doesn't matter, but it sure is fun. The test will be when UAL pilots are on the stand if I can poke fun at them too and still enjoy it.