Originally Posted by
interceptorpilo
Let me point out some of your inaccuracies: you need to use median stage length not mean. And this whole chicken egg theory of yours on raises is wrong. If we say FAs got a raise after us in 2019 the you got a raise before us 12 months before that. You would have to go back ad infinitum to figure who got a raise first. The facts are the FAs got two raises after the pilots. Additionally you don’t just add 4 + 4 + 16 = 24. You have to multiply 1.04 x 1.04 x 1.16 to get 1.255. So flight attendants got a 25.5 % raise since the pilots got their last raise. You may be right that it was not a 16% raise for boarding pay but your math errors suggests it is much more than 14% total.
1. Why would you use the median stage length rather than the mean stage length?
2. We don’t have to go back infinitum. Just have to go back to Bankruptcy where both groups essentially had an extended period of time with no raises. Pilots have received more overall raises and also a large percentage overall since bankruptcy. I can make a complete list if you’d like. Also, this explanation of annual raises was also given in communications by the company. I specifically remember reading it a few years back.
3. 4% plus 10% = 14.4% compound