Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
Interesting to remember the last contract here. It wasn't SWAPA that was gunning for the 35% pay increase for the 1st year guys. It was the company because they were losing people to Delta and they wanted to retain people. The bean counters will have empty airplanes without seriously jacking up the rates and my threshold for a yes vote is getting higher by the day.
Keep stalling, Carl.
i may have misunderstood the survey question. What I thought it was asking for was what would be the lowest acceptable first year (of the new contract) initial pay raise that I’d be willing to accept. I didn’t interpret the question as applying only to first year new hires.
Heck, it’d take a 55% pay raise to bring our 12-year captain rate up to Envoy’s new check airman rate of $427/hr.
And inflation isn’t slowing down any time soon it seems. A 40% first year of the contract initial pay raise would likely be a no vote for me depending on how the rest of the contract looked.