Originally Posted by
MudhammedCJ
For all of you with shiny new captain wings, remember this is all you get soon. No more step raises. And you will be riding reserve and then weekend line flying for a long, long time. The union comms said CAREER compensation, not highest 737 rate by 32 cents or whatever. If the number is 320, that's not even close. It's literally MILLIONS behind.
I came here when we were the highest paid. Then the legacies came back minimally from their crappy bankruptcy contracts and rose above us again. This recent cycle they didn't even get an inflationary increase and some of you are ok with just barely edging out their narrow body rates? While flying 50%+ more than them? This is the only time in the rest of most of your collective careers that you will have the ability to demand more. This profession has fallen for decades. Now is the time to get ours.
Also, if you're a PMer, you'll lose money in the changeover to LCO vs move up pay.
I hear what you are saying, but the market is the market. We cannot change that. Delta and United needed to do some heavy lifting this cycle. They both decided that fixing some issues in their contracts and getting it done outweighed the pay rates. So here we are. You can't change that and neither can I. I am not trying to set expectations low, I am just saying that we can not demand ridiculous pay rates and expect any support from the NMB.
What we can change is the sad state of our current abusive relationship with SWA and how they pay us what they pay us. I expect that to be airtight as it can be and industry leading in all regards. If it isn't...
LCO can be a goldmine for PM flyers simply because many changes on PM trips get absorbed by rigs. I just want to see it in practice (a simulation of how it would have paid over a year, let's say) prior to passing final judgment. AM flyers currently get screwed by lack of move up. PM flyers currently get screwed by schedule extensions and long days. I am a big fan of move up. Hate to see it go. This had better be good.