Originally Posted by
pagey
Well first of all nowhere in any of my posts on this thread did I say that Our contract was better than XJT's.
I said I can make more money than you, and have more time off. And that, to me, is the very definition of QoL.
Humor me though and tell me why your contract is vastly superior to ours. I guess I only have 1/4th of a brain.
Start with "rolled days off" please.
I'm bottom of the list and get 20-22 days off a month if all I want is guarantee. If I want only 12 days off, I can make 120+. With the 200% being offered, I could make it it to 150 hours if I really wanted. Obviously, not everyone at the company is getting this. I know my contract and work my schedule around. I'm sure you do the same. But I'm sure not all your coworkers are in the same QOL as you are.
The majority of our QOL issues aren't a contract issue. United has decided to not care about our QOL and that means XJT management won't care as much. But at the end of the day, all of our pilots still have to get their 401K defined contributions. If we lose our medical, well it's not all as bad as it could be for us. I can assure you that if we'd voted yes to our TA, our QOL would be not be better. It would've made it much worse in far more cases than it being better.
I have no problem with the content of your contract. What my concern was your pilot group's decision that now affects us all. Eagle is having a harder time now because of that vote. It set the precedence of taking concessions for airplanes. Our TA's content was influenced by that vote too.