Originally Posted by
aa73
I think it’s safe to say after reading through this thread that U.S. Airways and America West had way better work rules than LAA but with way less pay. Accurate?
We need to fix the LAA work rules, like, yesterday. Pilots here need to stop falling all over themselves over just pay rates.
To put it in perspective, I'd be a 6th year pay Airbus CA at LUS right now making...$117/hr.
Way less pay is an understatement.
There were a few workrules that were nice, but they added up to little. Example, as a DH on reserve it went above guarantee. There was no line guarantee except for the last trip of the month. Reserves tended to work less because they were over staffed (pilots were super cheap to have on hand). Schedule wise you could drop/swap trips within two days, but that was a function of just how overstaffed we were. Overall I don't really recall anything in particular that stuck out as being stellar.
Hands down the biggest increase in QOL would be a fix to red/redder. I don't expect to be able to drop my entire schedule but it would be nice to be able to at least swap things around. Hands down this is my biggest frustration with our contract. I really don't want much more $, since ~50% of the pay increase leaves the door in taxes. We would get way more bang for the buck increasing QOL items and not pay.
I would like to investigate bankruptcy proof deferred compensation as well.