Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot

Yes it's a staffing concession. Same with 8hrs of scheduled flying per day. Say hello to a bunch of long red eye turns if that goes away. Fine if they pay two calander days at our new 6.5 min day.

Also I wish people would stop saying MATCH with 401k. Match is why they are getting away with only giving us $17.5k a year if you're maxing out. It also forces you to contribute when you may want to invest elsewhere. We need 16% of wages contributed to 401k all the way up to the max combined for employer and employee of $53k. If you want to put in too, great but you shouldn't have to. Also if we get the pay rates we should having a 16% match would again leave money on the table for those at the top of the scale because money you put in is eating into money the company could be putting in.