Originally Posted by
Lewbronski
Never claimed to know it all. I said “it was the most recent and most credible information I could find.” Again, there are a lot of reasons to assess as reliable an analysis produced by MIT.
You only offered hearsay. I never asserted that you were wrong. I asked you to post your evidence here. A vague and non-specific claim that, at one point, you had some sort of relationship with ALPA’s EFA committee isn’t very solid proof of anything.
Why wouldn’t ALPA’s “expert” consultant use the ALPA EFA committee’s proprietary costing data rather than relying on Form 41 data?
I still don’t know for certain if the data SWAPA is using is more reliable than the MIT data. But, like I said, apparently SWAPA believes it is, AND it’s more conservative on the topic of block hours, so I went with it. It didn’t make a dramatic difference in the “for fun” rates I modeled.
If I thought I “[knew] it all” as you insinuate, I wouldn’t have spent several hours today trying to find data to prove or disprove the null hypothesis that there is no difference in reliability between MIT ADP data and other sources of data used to compare airline pilot metrics. I don’t think the question is cleared up at this point.
As I explained in another post on this thread, a former SWAPA official imbued with some credibility on their resume swore up and down that attempting to leverage the RLA was pointless because the President could unilaterally lengthen a Section 10 PEB and/or establish second or third consecutive PEB’s. They were wrong from the get-go.
Much like yourself, our former SWAPA official never produced any real evidence but instead just pointed to the supposed credibility in their background. No one ever fact checked this person until the last few years.
Word has started to get out that the myth our union official planted back in the 90’s was wrong the whole time. But it’s still impacting our ability to obtain an industry-leading contract today.
Our pilot group has likely lost out on significant gains over the last two-plus decades because we never demanded evidence. We simply swallowed the misinformation hook, line, and sinker.
So, I’m not going to apologize for asking you to produce real evidence for a claim that could have an effect on our negotiations.
You called a SWAPA rep yet to figure out what they're hoping to get pay wise? Is that too much work? Or does the reality that your time is wasted with all your long-winded holier than thou posts scare you from confirming it's truth? Or perhaps only your data matters to you, and other data like that does not?