Originally Posted by
Chimpy
Well, what he says and what he does are two different things.
Where was DUI Dougie when they discussed profit sharing and minimum days off etc, or days off in a hotel a 1,000 miles from home etc.....
I'm not defending our CEO, don't know anything about him other than he likes pasta and Vanilla Ice Cream. It's just I'm not going to praise Doug Parker because what he "says" in an article
Maybe it is all "talk" and maybe it's not. They are well compensated today and if this "talk" brings better work rules then AA will be the go-to place for a lot of guys.
The point I made by showing the talk of new rates by is that first UA, then DL proposed new pilot pay now AA is about to do the same.
We are getting leap frogged.
Our 40% raise needed to be on par with them is about to be 75%.
It's going to be very hard for an arbitration judge to say a 50-60% raise isnt in order.