Originally Posted by
snowdawg
Almost. Company wanted 777 really bad, and union said $300 per hour. Company laughed, a year later we signed 777 at 300 an hour. Then UAL took that number and applied it to their 1999 contract all the way down to their 737. We in turn for contract 2k asked for UAL +1% and we got it. Contract 2000 UAL +1% was with Malone.
Had we opened for 300 a hour we would have had a deal in days. We opened far higher and basically settled for what the company offered in week one a year later. The agreed upon rate was 250 for the 777 and 230 for the 767-400. We traded the profit sharing for a 6% raise across all fleets which brought the rate up to 265. The 737-800 had been negotiated prior to this giving us 3 fleets that comprised what UAL's CEO called the Delta dot in their negotiations.