Not in response to your post, but to the guy questioning your math. It never ceases to amaze me how stupid Alaskan pilots are. Your contract is garbage. We may not have had a contract but our work rules were vastly better than yours and our management actually abided by them. Hourly rates are just that, hourly rates. It’s the contract the pays the bills.. and yours is embarrassingly pathetic-courtesy of your “oh ho hum, this is the best we are gonna get so might as well vote yes” pilots who lack a spine or a pair of balls enough to say no I’m worth more than this.
Would gladly return this “windfall” I received and go back to our system without the most west coast airline.
Originally Posted by
IFlyEm
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...