Originally Posted by FLAK

It looks like ASA's first year pay is getting bumped up to around $23/hr with their new TA. I'm sure non-ALPA SkyWest would follow suit pretty quick and bump ours up to match theirs. With ALPA on our side imagine what a long drawn out process management would make getting any sort of TA of our own and they're not going to "hand out" a raise until such an agreement is met - like YEARS later. I think by the time ALPA and Skywest ever reached a TA of our own (what did ASA take--5 years?) most of us will be out the door flying for a major