Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Some items are not accurate such as HA per diem. Overall it's far less then ours. Our DC plan is the only one that pays on profit sharing which boosts our payout above everyone else even at 15% and it goes to 16% 1 Jan. Some comparisons they use the date as of signing instead of 1 Jan 17 a whole month later. Our flight attendants get a higher daily rate but for a given standard 2 day recurrent only get 2 days pay instead of the 3 or even 4 we would get with travel days.
So, "it's complicated" is a better answer, because in all those cases the emailed statements are indeed correct. The single inaccuracy you cite (Hawaiian per diem) is also "complicated". Our domestic per diem is indeed less than their domestic rate (and not just on DOS), but more than their inter-island rate, for which we have no direct comparitor.
We all have access to the full 68-page contract comparison, and hundreds of pages of contractual language. In my mind there's nothing wrong with some highlights of the negative aspects for voters to contemplate or disregard at their leisure. In my case, they aren't enough to make me vote no...but they remind me that should industry profits disappear, much of what makes us "industry-leading" will evaporate.
Let's all hope that doesn't happen.