Originally Posted by Green Needles

All due respect, but you are mistaken about them caring about us too much. This company is night and day different for the better from a few years ago, but they have only upped our pay because they had to to keep us staffed. No airline pays any more than they have to out of benevolence. They pay what the market demands.

The word in recurrent from one of the guys on our negotiating committee was a $19 per hour for everyone and do away with the bonus completely. That's a pay cut for anyone who credits less than 85 hours per month. Not a single pilot should suffer any cut in pay, period.