Originally Posted by
rp2pilot
True, but in the next 10 years there will be about 2000 retirements at Southwest and about 6000 retirements at United. That's 1/4 of the pilots at Southwest vs 1/2 of the pilots at United. That's a significant difference in seniority and corresponding compensation. Add to that the value of time for growing your retirement; at 7% interest, it doubles every 10 years.
Agreed.
But we ALL KNOW those junior SW guys (2-3yrs) that "kill it" compared to some of our peers as far as a W2 goes.
THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING.
And since you brought up the bold part, it's as others mention.....
.......a guy hired at SW post 9/11 and got the quick upgrade is way ahead of our situation now. Time value of money and all that.
So you can boast of UAL NOW, we weren't ALWAYS THAT WAY.