Originally Posted by
Margaritaville
It's ridiculous that Andrew gets 120PCH. There's no way he could make that much on the line. Im sorry, but nobody should make a windfall off union work. You should make what you would have made on the line. No more, no less. Even 100 hours would be reasonable but 120? No wonder he wants to keep this gig going forever. I'd say whatever I had to say for that kind of money too.
And before you union apologists jump in and tell me how you had a 140PCH month once, we're talking 120 hours every month. Wow. That's ridiculous.
the clock must be broken, because Marg and i actually agree on something: that it kinda sucks seeing our EXCO make significantly more than he possibly could on the line and being paid with our dues - dues that happen to be most expensive in the industry (and btw, he makes 130-150 PCH in his "busy months" - 120 PCH is the minimum he gets paid per month).
i get that it pays to be a politician like all of our shills running around washington, but the fact that it is so blatant and self serving is the bummer. the original contract didn't even allow the EXCO to make this much, it capped what they could get via flight pay loss; what changed was that when Andrew became EXCO he got the company to agree to modify the contract and allow him to get flight pay loss every day of the month and he also bids a line on the other side of the country (i get doing one or the other, but both??).
[waiting to read the responses about how myself, Marg, and others who feel this way are actually management and are trying to undermine the pilot group by speaking ill of our prophet, errr, EXCO]