Originally Posted by
sailingfun
In 30 months the Loss in pay will be about 25%. 21.5 direct rates, 1% DC, 1% vac and training plus a couple percent more in DC cash from the raise. You are saying that paying a max of 5.74% more in PS is going to bring the company to its knees? Call me confused on that one.
OK, in case nobody has said this yet... it's not all about the pay.
Scope concessions were going to take money out of pilot pay/benefits, reduce pilot opportunities, and reduce future staffing needs.
Sick leave concessions were going to to take money out of pilot pay/benefits, reduce pilot opportunities, and reduce future staffing needs.
OE bidding concessions were going to to take money out of pilot pay/benefits, reduce pilot opportunities, and reduce future staffing needs.
ALV concessions were going to to take money out of pilot pay/benefits, reduce pilot opportunities, and reduce future staffing needs.
Then of course, there were many other Easter eggs. One of my favorites was the side agreement that would transfer ACA excise tax burden from the company to the pilots. Of course, before the vote I was told by DALPA officials that this would affect only a small percentage of pilots (which wasn't true), but in the MEC missive of yesterday they now say it will be every ALPA member by 2022 (which also isn't true, but it makes good rhetoric).
How much were all these concessions going to affect us? We don't know, but I'm betting dollars to donuts that the company's actuarials had a good estimate.
My WAGs for staffing impacts alone were 180 for OE and 120 for ALV. If we prognosticate that Scope and Sick Leave intimidation would each yield a 1% increase in "efficiency/productivity," that's another 240 fewer pilots needed. So maybe around 500 fewer pilots needed because we were going to work harder?
I'm thankful for the older pilots especially who didn't screw the younger/junior ones by prostituting themselves for a pay raise.