Originally Posted by
ninerdriver
You like making $50 per hour? There's a good chance that wouldn't be the case soon if the MEC hadn't negotiated turning the retention bonuses into hourly pay *before* we were crazy overstaffed. You'd be sweating the prospect of making $30 per hour to sit reserve starting in January.
Go read the SkyWest ALPA 2.0 thread if you want some education about how the ALPA MECs work.
If the retention bonus had expired, this airline would cease to exist due to all the pilots quitting. But that's water under the bridge now.