Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
You have repeatedly held up this pamphlet as a proxy for the value of their contract, yet we now know that, due to their staffing changes, there is less overtime available today. Yet, their contract itself has not changed.
My point then, is simply that the MIT Form 41 data has neither less nor more validity and context than the SWAPA infomercial.
I think I was pretty clear in one of my earlier posts today that the situation has changed at SWA. As I understand it, they have effectively taken a pay cut because a lot of the premium pay opportunities have dried up for them.
But as I said before, in 2012 the "SWAPA infomercial" data WAS relevant. It was a data point showing arguably our biggest domestic competitor at the time with pilots making substantially more than our pilot doing the same type of flying. It was a data point that could have been used to help bolster our argument that our pay no longer needs to be based on bankruptcy and needed to be boosted significantly (a heck of a lot more than 4833). DALPA refused to use this. In fact, they not only refused to use it, they tried to sweep it under the rug.