Originally Posted by
Wiskey Driver
I had no problem with ALPA and frankly neither did you in the east. It wasn't until Lee told you he could get you out of the arbitration results basically by stalling for years that any of you did. That stalling has come at a considerable price to your career however. Yes the east has been allowed to circumvent the process and take seats they were not entitled too but that will all iron itself out as well. The price you have paid as well as all the other east captains is that of being locked in at LOA93 rules and rates for the same duration.
The east pilots that were already captains at the time have financed that stalling. There are many that retired and several more to come at that horrid pay scale. The really really funny part is that you and many other captains have paid that price for them and the NIC will still be used in the end so in essence that makes you all very foolish.
WD at AWA
Actually, I doubt that I would be a captain had the Nic gone through, so I think with a contract that we could achieve with our fractured group I'm at breakeven or ahead. The guys that were already captain and those that will retire on LOA 93 really lost out.
How about what the west has lost out on? I had a 10 year west guy on my jumpseat a while back. He is still on reserve, pulling down about $89 an hour. That is awful, compare him to a SWA guy hired at the same time instead of LOA93. That's the issue I have with you guys.