Originally Posted by
brakechatter
As for LOA 93, you are stuck on it as well. In fact, you have been stuck on it for much longer than the East pilots if you are a legacy AW pilot. You should be used to low pay. Perhaps a quick check of the walls before you cast that stone.
Sorry to burst your bubble but the west is not on LOA93 pay rates. Your captains have made over 20 dollars per hour LESS than I have for the last 7 years. Not to mention the extra week and a half of vacation I get per year. And the short term disability that didn't come out of my sick bank and reset every time I went back to work. And the 5+15 per day I get for sitting on the beach in Hawaii or taking a brewery tour in BOS (highly recommend the Sam Adams tour) on my long layovers. And so on, and so on. Contracts are not all about hourly wages, work rules have to be just as good or better to have a great quality of life. AWA had good work rules and we would have had a better pay rate if we had been allowed to pursue our Section 6 instead of a merger.
You could have had the MOU pay rates 6 years ago. The Kirby proposal was better than the MOU, but your negotiators pulled out after the Nicolau was awarded with almost all sections of a JCBA TA'd. USAPA voted themselves on the island and the rest is soon to be nonhistory. No pilot group in the history of aviation has shot themselves so repeatedly in the dick as has USAPA.