Originally Posted by
ManFlex
Fundamentally, a paycut is coming to the majority of us. You can vote 'Yes' on the LOA and vote in your own paycut or vote 'No' and let the company impose their will. The difference in pay between the LOA and what management has threatened is so minuscule that I'd rather take my chances with a 'No' vote and know that at least I didn't agree to a paycut at the USA's most profitable carrier.
I really don't see how this will result in a pay cut for the majority of our pilots. In some cases, it will result in a slight loss in DHD pay, in other cases, it will result in a slight bump in credit due to the fact that the 10 hrs is payed above line value (see my previous posts). The fact is that the DHD pay will begin to decrease regardless of how we vote with the new training centers in LAS and now apparently DFW so that does need to be taken into account here.
DHD pay to and from training can be a nice perk (if your training is scheduled on days off), but there is nothing in the contract that guarantees an abundance of DHD training pay. As the company gets more and more efficient, they will get better and better at avoiding DHD training pay. One way to look at the LOA is that it actually guarantees more credit hours than our current training section does. There is no guarantee that they have to schedule your training event on days off and with our inability to bid on training schedules, we have very little control over where our training is placed.