Originally Posted by iahflyr

100% agreed. Clearly many people on this thread were not here for Smisek and other previous CEO’s. SK has a job to do as CEO and make the company run well, but I would take him over any former United CEO (or any other current airline CEO for that matter).

Today was one of the most pleasant days since I’ve been at United. 5% raise given 6 months early. Then I come on APC and people seemed ****ed and irritated.

Inflation is ~14% since the contract became amendable in Jan 2020. This covers the first 5% of that inflation. That’s what they mean by down payment. Nothing nefarious. And we get it early while negotiating the rest of the contract. Big win for us.

Many pilots don’t understand the time value of money, and it really shows. I would much rather have a raise today and start negotiating the next raise, rather than drag it out for years and years just so the next raise percentage is slightly “higher”.