Originally Posted by moonship

yes "ours"...but we are not in a bubble. How do you take industry average, and negotiations toward them, without looking at the rest of the industry? Sounds like a great way to know what we have that's awesome, and what needs to be improved. This most profitable vs makes the most money vs whatever phrasilogy debate is maddening, and why i'm not jealous of the negotiating committees job of communicating with some of the thick skulls we have running around here. We make a boat load of money (and have a big stock pile of cash) with a small market share, and the percentage of money we make is more than any other airline with our current contract, growth, and qol. Equivilently they can pay us more (maybe even delta rates plus, oh yeah i said it) keep our rules, and still keep that percentage higher than anyone else. There are a few majors who have a pay parity clause in there contract that looks at others rates at set times and they get raises if the "industry average" is made higher by the like. In the best negotiating environment possible we have a minority group on this board who are busy sqibbiling about the definition of how good things are financially at our airline? It's a great problem to have , isn't it?