Originally Posted by
rube
Well bless your heart, you just asked the stupidest question ever posed on APC. Congratulations.
Profit sharing takes just one bad quarter to vanish for the whole year. Pay concessions take a trip to bankruptcy court, plus an 1113 filing. That took three years last time before we got to LOA 46. Hard rates compound over time, increase our share of the profit sharing pie as a hedge versus dilution among a larger pool of employees, and are subject to negotiation, while variable compensation follows the whim of the market.
The TA rates pay more than 2004 rates, and the whole thing beats the CPI dating back to 1991.
"Cube rat?" You can surely do better than that. If you can't win on the terms, you attack the person.
You made a blanket statement that rates can be locked in - and in this post by your own words they can't. That makes everything you posted the stupidest on APC.
You're real good at parroting sailingfun though, I have to admit.
One more thing - don't lecture me on airline bankruptcy, been there, done that, 3 damn times.