Originally Posted by
Al Czervik
I believe myopic would be your stance that this way is the way it's always going to be. Some of us have 30-35 years left. We have strives to make at US/AA. This career has had troubled years. How have you not matched SWA's heavy lifting of the 737 pay rates? They have had you substantially blown out of the water on those scales for years. Isn't that where your rates should start? We are all in this together. Hopefully we can help raise the bar in the future. I appreciate the bar lifting you have accomplished.
I actually think you and I agree on this subject, and I apologize if my last post came over as a little arrogant. It wasn't my intent. However, SWA has never done any heavy lifting. If you have 30+ years left, you need to do a little research on that. They have taken small incremental pay increases for at least the last 20 years, and everybody else fell back to them. I remember when they signed a multi year contract back in the 90s, and everybody was wondering what they were thinking. Their 3 and 4%/year increases have been far more valuable over the years than our 12.5% increase in the last contract.... but we are getting there.