A few dollars more on a hourly pay rate isn’t an entire contract. In fact your hourly pay rate is a portion of your total w2 compensation. They will never come close on our retirement either. And we haven’t even begun talking about vacation and PBS and the inability to conflict. All of those things add to your W-2 but are not pay rates. I hope pilots are not so shortsided that all they do is stare at an hourly pay rate. That is exactly what management would want you to do while they gut the rest of your soft pay and work rules/retirement/bidding (pbs)/vacation

How about the company agreeing to pay us $450/hour for our max widebody pay rate but you have to give up your pension, vacation and implement PBS? Would you take it since hourly pay rates are so important to you?

Delta didn’t one up us by the way. Our total compensation is substantially higher. Even under this current contract. I was previously at another legacy…..