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Old 11-06-2015 | 10:23 AM
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I voted No because the retirement didn't meet my expectations. If both a Delta pilot and a SW pilot have an identical pay rate the Delta pilot's take home is 10% greater because they don't need to invest 10% of their take home in their retirement plan (unless they want to). That said, I fully expect that the next TA won't happen until summer 2016 at the earliest and if the economy has taken a dive by that point we will be lucky if it is "flattish". So while I believe in standing up for yourself, I am also a realist. Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself even when you realize it's probably going to cost you in the end. I personally believe the next TA will be a shadow of what this one was with any improvements weighted towards the seniormost pilots.
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