Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
I know someone asked earlier but it's the AA contact a good thing for us or what?
I think it's a good thing for us. The NMB has stated often that it views reasonableness by your standing amongst your peers. When the final pilot cost numbers are out for 2014 we will be well above any other passenger airline for the year. This will get American at least in our ballpark for 2015. The question now is how profit sharing will be factored in to the problem.
As I posted before I think we can make a solid case that it is offset cost wise by American having to make contributions to the pilot B fund and therefore we can directly compare pay table compensation rates. They will on average be 10% above us on 1 Jan 2016.
I have no idea how their work rules cost out against ours. Their pilots seem to think ours are better but I don't see a dramatic difference other then the 5:15 daily average.