Originally Posted by
OverGMcGee
Was not I that made stupid comments. It was your abx partner that claimed I couldn’t ride the same bus.
Truth be known we make more now. More hard facts to swallow is this isnt UPS it isn’t FEDEX its surely not Delta. If you desire that kind of work and pay I suggest anyone apply there.
This is ACMI the salaries here will never match mainline. Just accept it. We just received the second biggest raise in alpa history and we’re being hounded for it. How stupid is that.
Once again you make the mistake in thinking that it is only ABX folks who are upset, it is the whole ACMI world, (Atlas, Kalitta, Southern, etc). The hard work that the rest of the ACMI industry has done in order to bring this portion of the profession out of the sewer has been set back greatly.
Right now no one is necessarily talking mainline or UPS money, but they are talking Kalitta/Omni money and quality of life. You failed to achieve that mark and that is what people are talking about. So next time please done't mention a comparison with the majors or UPS/Fed Ex. What you need to say is that evidently ATI pilots can never hope to achieve those high wages like Omni and Kalitta.
As far as percentage increase, that is a meaningless number. If you make $10 an hour and you get a 200% increase you still only making $30 an hour. It is the actual dollars that matter not the percentage increase. You also say this is the second biggest increase in the history of ALPA and yet it fell behind the last 2 contracts signed, (Kalitta and Omni), both not negotiated by ALPA...things that make you go humm!