My wish list for Southern Air goes as follows:

1. Duty day restriction of 16 hours (This includes commercial travel). If they go over, it must be by my consent and then they must pay half my flight pay + whatever I get paid for flying or DH.

2. 18 Days max on the road. After that, 5 hours of pay per day + whatever I get for flying or DH.

3. A better Health Insurance Plan. The current one is not as good as some others I have seen (And I pay less, max out of pocket $150 for a family).

4. 14 hours minimum rest. If they go less, than half my flight pay gets paid continuously until I get 14 hours rest. (This is in addition to flight pay or DH pay).

5. Life Insurance paid for by the company of at least 100,000 dollars.

6. Loss of License Insurance Paid by the company.

7. Of my guaranteed 12 days off every month, if I get called and asked to fly during those 12 days, I get paid 5 hours every day + whatever I fly or DH.

8. Pay guarantee on bid lines. If I get bid awarded a 75 hour line, I get paid for that line even if it doesn't fly 75 hours. And if they don't send me out to fly said bid line, I get paid whatever I fly + the bid line.

8. And of course, better pay per hour (captains should start around $140 an hour, FO's & FE's should be should be around 60 the first year and then mid 70's the second and so on.

I know maybe some of you guys are laughing, but is this unrealistic? If you think it is, you have been bottom feeding too long.

This is the contract at World Airways. Which coincedently, have roughly the same number of aircraft.