Originally Posted by
Profane Kahuna
Hopefully the polling accurately captures the new landscape.
OALs have far better life insurance, disability, profit sharing, pay, parental leave, etc. Hell, they even get more vacation than we do.
We need big improvements in ALL sections.
Yes, exactly.
To bring this thread back to the OP’s point, I hope everyone checks out the
pilotpaycompare.com site, especially the “SWA Hypothetical” feature before filling out the pay portion of SWAPA’s polling so they can have a realistic idea of how far behind we are and how large the raise needs to be just to match the OAL’s and how even larger the raise needs to be to achieve a premium on the OAL’s given that, according to SWAPA’s FP2020, we fly 83% more departures, 63% more passengers, and 24% more block hours than Delta.