Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Please go back and carefully read our opener and the follow on communications. If we had only asked for hourly wages to catch up with inflation it might well have been doable. We asked for far more than that including work rule changes requiring the company to hire thousands of pilots. Straight inflation from the peak in 04 to 2019 would have required moving the 767 CA wage from 267 in 2004 to about 361 in 2019 A 8,5,5 would have been very close and over that with a 18% DC. Off course the company might argue the increase in soft money should also be included. That could bump those raises down more.
In the end however you again fail to understand it’s not really relevant. It’s your standing amongst yours peers that is the heavy hitter and a successful strategy has to move them along also. How do you eat a Elephant? One bite at a time. We decided we would eat the elephant all at once or starve. So far we are starving but the masses are getting hungry.
Honest question, do you really think ALPA would have brought that to the membership? What do you think the percent "NO" would have been to that? Especially when the company was consistently printing money to the tune of $6B+ annually?
And again, no-one could have possibly predicted traffic would fall off 95+% in April 2020. You simply can't use hindsight to advocate an ongoing strategy. It doesn't work that way - if I did, we'd all be bitcoin billionaires...