Originally Posted by pagey

With the addition of the 30 900s as well as 1% flat increase in April(?) 2015 the new 4 year FO cap is within like 15 cents of the old 8 year rate. The 1% happens every year and WAS NOT in the original contract so in a couple years our 4 year rate will actually be higher than the old 8 year rate ever would've been in the original deal. The 4 year cap essentially doesn't matter.

The increase for the most expensive family plan at the full maturation of the health care increase is $60/month. Yes, unfortunately it is more but it is not budget shattering. For my single plan the increase is $8/month.

As far as "schedule manipulation" Even at normal staffing levels the company, and union stated during negotiations for the ORIGINAL contract that something like 18% of days are critical anyway. The way the language is written if 1 out of every 5 days are critical it wouldn't be much of a problem the get some critical pay.

On the off chance that no days are critical You can still drop flying down to 65 hours and then pick back up your original(or similar) trips later at 125%. This situation is obviously not as rosy as the current one but it is no worse than any other regional.

So there's the relevant numbers.