Originally Posted by
Palmtree Pilot
Yep, and the front side window is closer to your face. 3 years on the MD-11 and 11 years on 747s all over the world for hours of monotonous over water and foreign countries, I have no problem with 18 years of narrow body domestic flying to end my career.
That's fine. Can't argue with your feelings.
But, what is true and inescapable is that widebody fleets provide OAL's with "artificial seniority" and better career compensation when flying an equivalent number of credit units than we have available to us under our present contract at SWA.
So...we don't have widebodies and we're likely not getting them for the foreseeable future. What we are going to get at SWA in the (perhaps distant) foreseeable future is a new contract. We can use the leverage we have available to us right now during this contract cycle to achieve career compensation that beats OAL's, especially considering the fact that, according to SWAPA, SWAPA pilots fly an average of 83% more departures, 63% more passengers, and 24% more block hours (or 30% more according to MIT) than Delta.
You may not like widebody flying. But I think we can all appreciate the idea of widebody-plus career compensation.