Hell NO to that AIP. The rates haven’t increased enough and the company got further incentivized to drag out future negations because they’re not paying full retro.

I’ve been assured by our NC that everyone in the negotiating room knows that full retro is not to be even questioned for us. I just hope their definition of it is the same as mine. That is that the newly agreed upon pay rates are applied back to the amendable date of our contract and the difference is what we would have earned had those rates started then and what we actually earned since then.

Look at your crystal balls. They are REALLY easy to read when it comes to future compensation at SWA. Hiring will significantly outpace aircraft growth. It’s obvious they want to staff like it’s 2018 again. Premium will be gone (it’s already drying up). I can’t say it enough:

*** It’s imperative that we base our expectations of compensation on an overstaffed airline and minimum monthly guarantee. Therefore, our TFP rates need to come up huge unless we want to find ourselves making less money under a new contract than we did under the current one with leaner manning. ***