Originally Posted by
Scoop
Calling guys who take advantage of the contract "Triple dippers" does not help. It is very easy for the company to get us fighting amongst ourselves -m please don't help them.
These Pilots are exercising their seniority rights. What about Pilots who get a training bypass for the last 18 months of their career - should that be for sale/trade because they are being paid for equipment they are not flying? I am sure the company would love to change that item.
I could go on for quite a while picking individual points of our contract that only benefit a small % of our Pilots at any given time - the point is over time a large % of our pilots have the option of taking advantage of most of our PWA. Many may not exercise portions of our PWA but it is available for all.
So lets not help management by referring to Pilots exercising our PWA in a negative light.
Scoop
Interesting argument except that for a certain percentage of the group time is running out. Many members of that same group are also deadzoners that will not be made whole no matter what we get. As each day goes by, they are further and further behind. So the guys newly hired, and those yet to be hired are going to reap the benefits of our steadfastedness while many of us are under the wheels of the bus. Maybe the tradition of captains buying beers needs to change.
Time value of money. (Sorry, I gotta go with Warren Buffet on that one and not some faceless keyboard warrior.) Again, I am not advocating a bad deal nor do I have any agenda. (I am really getting tired of saying that but some don't seem to get that I am just expressing an opinion). The longer we go without a pay increase the further behind we are.