Originally Posted by
Zman81
I still would take our contract any day of the week over any legacy contract. We have better rigs, we have better vacation overlap, we have better SCOPE, etc. Have you seen United and Delta’s pairings ? No thanks. My point is and this isn’t directed at you. It’s for everyone, you have to know what you have before fighting for other things. I believe this SWAPA will fix a lot of what people don’t like.
I have friends at other places, our contract lags. Those who went to other airlines make more than I in equivalent aircraft, add to that they upgrade faster and have even higher paying widebody and international options.
They fly half what I do and earn more. We make fun of their long layovers on the beach, but even with their 30+ hours off they still make more, with fewer duty days.
My friends that went to FedEx when I came here upgraded just prior to Covid, I’ll never get out of the right seat. They have better hotel rules, better reserve rules, better work rules, and QOL, etc.
To say we have them beat is pure denial. Even the regional I came from had a better contract than we in almost every area other than pay, including vacation.
We had PBS and I would never go back to that. But the rumor that PBS takes away all vacation flexibility is totally false. I was middle seniority and routinely converted one week to twenty-one days easily. It’s all in the rules you negotiate and how well you know your system. But again, I would never be in favor of going back to PBS.
Many here just don’t really know what they don’t know, because until the last few years the percentage of pilots that came from other airlines was relatively small.