Originally Posted by
sailingfun
On 1 jan the rate goes to 270.00. Add in the DC plan and profit sharing around 15% and were talking 350.00 per hour.
We also worked few hours in 2013.then SW and earned more credit. One JoBerg trip on a GS could pay over 20 grand for 3 days.
You might want to change the batteries in your calculator SF.
1.15 x $270 = $310.50, which is still $9/hr. below our 2004 pay rate, 11 years later, oh, and 11 years ago we had a DB plan too!
Also, the JNB trip is 5 days, not 3.
Just about nobody with a regular line can greenslip one due to the new FAR's. (100 in 28). If you already have a 78hr. line, you can't add a 32hr. trip to it in most cases. There are lots of them in open time that can't be picked up, or assigned as GS, except to a reserve, who might be using rolling thunder, if he's smart, but he won't get double pay for the trip, just 32hrs. over the cap. That new FAR has become a bidding-math nightmare, month to month, but it has also required more pilots at the top, which is good for everyone.
And for 76 driver, I think that SW rate you are looking at is their 'trip pay' which is less than one hour. Converted to one hour, they are right up there with our 777/747 rates.
If I run for MEC Chairman, can I count on your support? How's your strike fund funded? It's nice that we no longer have the "Golden Handcuffs" of a DB plan to worry about if we do walk.
Your point about ATC taking 11 years to replace 11 thousand controllers only strengthens my point, they can't replace all of us overnight.
Now, if we could get some industry wide support from the other two majors airlines, that would help us all. Why there was no call for a National SOS when we all started losing our pay/retirements is beyond me. Absent that leverage, what do you have left to negotiate with?
I wonder what our MEC discussed with the other ALPA groups, AA and the SWAPA in Chicago? I hope it was finding some mutual ground for support to get the RLA changed.