I swear we are our own worst enemy sometimes.

You should probably just go be the company representative making their case to the mediator on why this is such a great place to work and we don't need industry standard compensation. They will probably just print that out and say "see look at how happy they are, we don't need to pay them to achieve our growth plan".

You are undermining your negotiators not to mention that essay doesn't represent the majority of the pilot group nor should I have to "work the system" or wait for scheduling to call to make an Airbus pilot compensation package.

Our red/green language is very good and has been held up in arbitration after it was blatantly stolen from us with zero justification and is never for sale. Outside of that and maybe one or two other cherry rules, our work rules and schedule flexibility is pretty much industry standard and not "better than" requiring some sort of compensation discount. I'm sure you didn't mean it that way but it will be interpreted that way at the table. Other airlines that may have perceived less flexibility is mainly because PBS solves with little to no open time so they have nothing to trade with. Talk to a southwest pilot much? Lots of flexibility, read: QOL, and the compensation to boot. The email we got the other day with the small pay comparison didn't represent them correctly if I'm not mistaken. Their pay numbers were shown compared to hourly when the numbers are for TFP so it made them look artificially low.

You should email your NC.