When DALPA’s full ask was published we were not in mediation. The company however immediately filed for mediation upon receiving our full contract proposal in Dec of 2019. Before any meaningful negotiations under the mediation process started covid hit and talks were suspended. You can compare key areas of our TA to our ask and decide how the mediator drove the process.
Vacation currently 126 hours maxed out. Our ask was 260 hours plus. We achieved 156 hours give or take a few hours.
Retirement was a 16% DC. Our ask was a 25% DC plus a supplementary plan giving each pilot a 300,000 minimum cash balance at retirement. We achieved a 18% DC phased in over 3 years.
Our pay ask was 20,8,8 for a 3 year contract. We got 4, 4, 14 non compounding bonus for those 3 years. We wrote into our union bylaws that full retro had to be in any TA and then accepted a 760 million signing bonus apportioned by the union in the 4,4,14 mentioned above. It was specifically done this way to cut retired pilots out of most of the bonus. We abandoned retro pay. To put the numbers into dollars we got 140 million, 140 million, 480 million. A modest 8,4,4 raise schedule would have paid about 270 million, 410 million, 550 million for a total of 1.2 billion plus. Full retro on our ask would have been in excess of 3 billion.
We asked for full control of rotation construction, we got nothing.
We asked that vacation weeks be spread equally throughout the year. We got a couple extra summer weeks from the current pitiful allocation.
You can go on and on with our ask verses result.