Originally Posted by
OpenClimb
Sorry to butt in here, but if I may make a suggestion... I keep seeing the 43% pay raise statistic being mentioned. I think you all are falling for a sleight of hand via the creative application of statistics.
I haven't done the math because I'm not privy to the actual proposed pay rates, but I would suspect that the large increases in the lower end of your scale are artificially inflating the reported pay raise percentage.
If I were you all, the percentage I'd like to see is a comparison between actual payroll per pilot in 2017 versus if this proposal were applied to 2017. I have no knowledge of your actual numbers, but you can bet that your negotiating committee members do. I would guess the sum total of givebacks versus improvements would put your actual raise at far less than 43%.
Just the humble suggestion of an outsider looking in. Carry on.
That is one of my main concerns but it would seem our mediator is quite content to focus on the percentage increase in pay rather than what that percentage actually brings us up to. Taking into account my credit hours vs block hours I on average make about 15-20% above my base rate from soft time so a nominal 43% raise doesn't mean much to me when it comes with "efficiencies" of PBS.
Yes I'm quite aware of the LTD and scope issues so save those comments. I've just seen/heard far too many junior Airbii/recently paroled RJ pilots over the past 24 hours drooling over these rates and an additional $8k (if equally divided) to the signing bonus and that's disappointing.