Tony,

Why haven't we even addressed increasing our profit sharing percentage? Why does this seem to be untouchable? Is it perceived inequity among the rest of SkyWest employees? This seems like the fairest way to increase our pay when we're doing well as a company while not eliminating our competitive advantage when we're trying to secure additional opportunities.

What about increasing daily guarantee? What about international per diem?

You're 0.32% base rate increase is actually a pay decrease if you fly the -700/-900 very much with the 1% reduction in BHO. Is the company planning on porking the third year FO/CA next year? Then it's the 4th year's turn when we're in year four and so on. Since we are a large hunk of the CRJ group, we're the most expensive hire year to give raises.

I'm sure you understand that the current pay agreement includes the understanding that the company will review our pay each year (why we're even doing this now). So next year when they "look" at it again -- gosh, those 3rd year folks are costing us a lot of money.