Originally Posted by
Myfingershurt
The raise isn’t shady, thinking that you all are dumb enough to consider it a down payment in your next contract is shady. You already negotiated this 5% as part of your Covid gives. They aren’t doing you some favor. Any gains in your next contract should be on top of this. This should have no bearing on any raises forthcoming in your next contract.
No pilots I know said anything about considering this a down payment. It is in fact a favor though, as like I mentioned, per the LOA this would not have been paid until at least May. Anything in the next contract should indeed be on top of this, which actually makes it even more of a favor since that percentage will be a multiplier of our pay at 105% and not 100%…
People are treating this like a bad thing, “the company is trying the jam us AGAIN… somehow”, sorry, I don’t see it. Take it for what it is, an early return on pilot investment in the LOA… shouldn’t effect negotiations or a fair TA offering one bit, but it is a nice bit of extra $ that is better now than waiting until May, that’s not somehow bad for us.