Originally Posted by
gzsg
A 50% pay cut requires a 100% pay increase to get to even.
If you are happy hitting 11 year old rates with no inflation, vote yes.
We magically used block hours to get management in balance and lose hundreds of Widebody jobs. For this we got a nickel in per diem.
We screwed all the first officers by taking away their ability to bid all available trips. For this we got 15 minutes of vacation.
This TA has no defense. There was no negotiation, just complete surrender.
This contract will raise our guaranteed pay rates 21.5% and if your projections for profit are accurate we will still get an additional 30% of W-2 in profit sharing even after trading some profit sharing for pay rates.