Originally Posted by
172skychicken
Here we go again.
That is not borne out by reality. The vast majority of the company credits over 80 hours a month. Taking the salary asks a much much much larger portion of the company to forgo a payraise versus what would ultimately be a very small paycut for the small percentage of the company making close to guarantee. And that of course ignores improvements to vacation, sick time, and 401K as well as improvements to quality of life such as long call reserve.
That's the point I was trying to make with my post...the company and union data, as well as the limited sample of talking to fellow Captains and FOs support the fact that most people credit above 83 hours per month. The dilemma we face is that is it worth reducing the pay raise for the majority of pilots to protect the pay of the vast minority? According to union data, 159 people (less than 10%) credited less than that last year.