Originally Posted by
Lewbronski
Thanks.
Just for "fun," I modeled what kind of rates it would take given the current ratio structure of our pay table to achieve a 30% career compensation premium at the 10-year point vs Delta (since we fly 30% more block hours than Delta pilots). The numbers are pretty eye-watering. I'm posting this just to give us an idea of how far behind we are in career compensation and how "unrealistic" the rates would have to be in order to compensate us for the additional risk and liability we incur as a result of flying 30% more block hours than Delta pilots do.
Another way to skin this cat if we were going to try to achieve this would be to increase the FO to CA pay ratios.
The pay scale displayed is the DOS + 3 yr pay table. There are three series of data displayed: the orange is SWA's current contract and upgrade, the blue is Delta's current contract and not quite earliest upgrade, and the green is the hypothetical SWA numbers with our current upgrade to achieve a 30% premium at 10 years.
Question for you. Do you think what you're proposing ($550/tfp) is anywhere near the realm of possibility of what SWAPA is even trying to attach? Do you think it would be productive to go to the company and say, "we want to keep all of the parts of our contract that are better than OALs, match them on all the parts that are worse, and we want you to pay us enough to make more than the couple top earning pilots in Delta history, assuming that all of their flying is on the 76 from the start and not the 75 (which is the actual case), despite that they are flying much larger planes that generate more revenue."