Originally Posted by
full of luv
Honest question:
In 12-14 days of work, if indeed your FO's are making $200K easy and top FO's are making $300K, how much are your CAPTS making and what about your TOP Capts? How is that not the top 737 pay capability?
Presuming that would go up 20% with TA2, WHAT IS IN TA2 that drove you to a NO vote assuming a 737 FO would be making $240K easy and top FO's making nearly if not over $360?
There are many people who are pretty happy that they will make a killing here who will happily vote YES, and that's fine.
My reasons for NO vote:
- Our LOL/STD/LTD needs quite a bit of an improvement.
- In light of Delta's TA (and UAL's me-too), we fall behind with regards to our pay rates... and we are the largest domestic US airline carrying the most passengers.
- There's no reason for incremental implementation of the B-plan. Industry standard is 16% and we don't get there until 2020 and that's only if we trade 1% 'raise' for it.
- I don't believe that our Section 1 leverage is nearly as strong as people believe. I don't trust the courts... so I'd prefer to get the Contract done right off the bat instead of nickel-and-diming our way with various MOU's. Some may disagree with me, and that's fine.
There's other dink stuff that may be a tad inconvenient, but wouldn't otherwise cause me to vote NO if the big items above were addressed.
Though I do think TA2 is a good step in the right direction and represents a good faith effort by the Company, it falls short (a tad over a billion dollars) of what our SWAPA leadership was telling us was unassailable - the Platform.