Originally Posted by
2loud
I'd check your math. Pre-acquisiton pay on Alaskan's side was $216 and $180ish at VX. Post-acquisition was $251 and now $258ish. These are TOS and I understand that VX didn't have anyone on 12th year scale. You'd have to be a premium trip sellout to make over $70/hr more. Regardless of your work rules, the numbers just don't add up.
My numbers add up perfectly fine. I was on 8th year Captain pay $185/hr. 8 year CA pay at AS was $202 or so. I credited between 90 to as high as 110 hours per month. I flew a lot but ironically never had a premium trip. On pay alone I did $222,000. Add into that 2.5% in incentive pay ($5500) and $26,500 in profit sharing and my gross for the year was $244k. Add 12% for 401k and was at $273k. I wouldn't have seen this at Alaska at the time. Even figuring 10% soft time I would have been looking at around 1050 - 1100 hours credit for the year flying with some training pay, 7.5% incentive pay, and a gross around $238k plus 401k contribution. Or roughly $6000 less than what my VX gross was.
And as for hurrying to unionize because we saw the writing on the wall.....well that just shows me that you don't know us at all. We organized because that was the only way we'd have a say in our future.
I suggest the instead of fighting with your brothers you instead join us. None of us have a say in the SLI. It will be what it is. And that's it. Our battle starts in 2020. No more will we cave to management and give any future arbitrator any ammunition to use against us in the next JCBA.
Winter is coming...