Originally Posted by
Carebear
Just read your CBA again. You’re right. JetBlue is omitted unless “a new agreement on pay rates is in place.” However your calculation presumes that southwest either can’t get a TA by 9/1 and will be at current rates, and you and others think southwest would agree to something less than $290 which puts them around the same rates as what delta, JetBlue and spirit have put out.
ALPA has been pushing for $330 since last year. I have a feeling top scale captain at all the airlines will be there by 9/1.
We're, or at least l'm, not presuming SW won't agree to a rate equivalent to, or better, than what DAL has put out. I'm saying they most likely won't have an agreement in place prior to when our first adjustment is to take place.
I'm basing this assessment on what every single SW pilot has told me, both here and in person, about the state of their negotiations and the lack of progress thus far. We're only 9 months from that first look back. This is the problem with an average rate adjustment vs. an actual snap up. We don't automatically bump up to the top rates of the industry and are reliant on everything and everyone else being squared away in hopes of keeping up with our peers.
That's why management signed off on it. It has a low probability of actually coming to fruition until 2024.
If SW signs a new CBA on 9/2/23 with DOS rates equivalent to DAL's DOS+1, well, we're making anywhere from $12-$35/hr less than the other 5 members of our peer group.....womp womp....
But on the bright side, at least the debate about who's on the tail of an Alaska, "Jet", is finally settled...It’s "Tailend Charlie", always bringing up the rear...