Originally Posted by
Delta757
If you guys match our rates, dollar-wise, you are getting a 13% raise. No, do not include your previous 5% raise, just like you don't include raises from last contract. You earned that 5%. Get 18% or greater. Don't settle for 13%. You getting 5% over us is not unreasonable. It's payback for your COVID LOA. If you don't get at least 5% above us, you signed that LOA for nothing
This is very true but too many pilots I fly with disagree. If we include that 5%, then what was the point of the COVID LOA except to further divide the pilot group. And let’s not start on how it saved jobs. The only reason it passed was because FOs got CA pay for sitting in the right seat.