Originally Posted by
Et tu Bluto
My takeaway is that even given SWA pay rates, the productivity advantages our company realizes from high density seating and high aircraft utilization and other factors would still leave us short.
Lets also add that in the near term we have significant percentage of our pilot group at the bottom of the pay scale. The fact that 50% of our pilot group is currently at 3 year pay or less gives us a significant cost advantage over EVERYONE else. All the legacies have all captains and most FO's at the top of the payscale. Southwest I believe is at most junior captain at the 10-11 year mark. This coupled with your comments mean that they can pay us Southwest + and still see a cost advantage for many years to come