Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

Very nice summary, except you're missing out on a couple of big-ticket items. You're scoffing at $15-20/hr more and profit sharing. You do understand how much money you're leaving on the table by just this little gem (PS), don't you? Our non-hustling captains are making around 300k per year in eligible wages (meaning we don't count NEC overages or previous year's PS in eligible wage calculation). Under the current contract, that PS meant 13.2% for 2016 and 11.3% for 2017. Using 300k as a baseline figure, that's another 34-39k in compensation left on the table. Throw in the amount you scoffed at, and you've made some bean counter a very happy person. You will have essentially left 55-60k/year on the table for the duration of your contract, and that's comparing you to us, which is what you seem to like to do. As I said before, I would expect that the management will be rewarded with a very nice bonus after you folks vote this in. They will have deserved it.

Since you brought up reserve, are you familiar with ours? You make it sound like you are. I'm not familiar with yours. In what way is your reserve superior to ours? For example, here we don't have a defined monthly guarantee anymore. That went away with the last contract... now we get min pay per day. If we get jerked around on reserve i.e. reassigned, for the most part, you fall under the same rules as a line holder which means you get premium pay for many reassignments. To put it in perspective, many reserves here credit around 115-125 TFP per month while flying about 50 hours or so ballpark. Translated to per-hour basis, that's around 100-109 hours of pay.

Also, our reserve work days do not exceed 16 days per month which means a minimum of 15 days off on 31 day months or 14 days off on a 30 day month. No airport reserve here either. Our bummer is... we can't drop reserve days, though nowadays people will pick it up from you if you want to give it away. I'm a lineholder, but I pick up reserve blocks these days because it's a decent way to make extra $$$$.

You're also correct in that this has been years in the making. What you fail to realize is that this pilot group tends to be the biggest bunch of koolaid drinkers and we almost got suckered in by TA1... thankfully, we passed on that turd and 9-10 months later, we ended up with what we have. In the end, you control your destiny, not the mediator or her empty threats. Also, I never said I was gonna look down on you if you pass this. What I did say was if you were going to look at your total package and "gains" with this TA and then look at your lanyard and wonder if you were still a discount pilot.

From what I see, we still have your former captains starting here as probationary FO's and more are applying as a result of this TA. I don't know... if it's as good as you say, why would they be leaving or looking to leave?