Originally Posted by
9easy
Some people will never be happy... If you vote this contract down, especially as a captain, I think you're nuts. You'll easily be leaving +$250k on the table plus a month or two on strike, by the time another contract comes a long. If you think the company is going to give you 4 days off after every trip like Spirit or 15 days off like Southwest, you're wrong. It'll never happen. And if it did, it would make the entire business model fail. The TA has the highest pay of any LCC, job security, and decent work rules.
Highest pay rate of the ULCC doesn't mean much without solid work rules to back those rates up. I've said since day one that work rules are the most important part with pay rates a distant second. I don't expect 4 days off after every set of trips (would have been nice sure), but I was hoping for 3 and expecting no less than 2. The single days off provision really is unacceptable. Suppose you get 16 days off (stop laughing it happens to people once in a great while here)...the company only has to attach 6 of those days together leaving you the potential for 10 single days off. Seriously?? How is anyone ok with that? I know junior pilots at other airlines getting more days off and NO SINGLES. While that's my biggest issue with the TA, I have a few others as well. We are going to have to live with this for the next 5-8 years most likely, so think hard and read every word to make sure you're ok with EVERYTHING in there and not just blinded by the pay rates.