Originally Posted by
tsquare
SWA is, and has been in negotiations for a year or so (I believe). Traditionally, they have not seen pay increases on the order of what some on here demand. So... by your numbers, a MD CA is about 7% (+/-) less than a SWA CA. If.... they get what is traditional, somewhere in the neighborhood of a 3% pay increase, that would mean that a MD88 CA would need about 10% to equal them. Would you find that acceptable?
10/3/3/3 ??????????
Just axin' since SWA is the gold standard, you better know where they have been, and where they are going.......
That's not right. According to SWAPA's published stats, the average SWA Captain makes $234K in flight pay. Now, I'm starting to hear that they are not getting the amount of premium flying today that they were getting when those stats were published, so it's possible their average is less now. In any case, do you think we should be paid LESS than what those guys were making a couple of years ago? Really?
Our current MD-88/90 Captain rate is approx $200. At an average of 80 hours/month, that would be $192,000 per year in flight pay. That's 18% below the SWA published stat. AND, I'll bet an 88/90 Captain would be averaging more than 12 days/month (including vacation and sick time) to make 80 hours. The SWA average is 12 days (including vacation and sick time).