Originally Posted by
Emmerson Bigs
Justinfacts is making a valid point that many of you seem to want to connveniently ignore. If this next TA is now about matching or exceeding industry pay rates no matter what, then the specifics in that goal DO matter. Like it or not, our goals require justifcation and logic with the NMB involved and really any time during section 6 negotiations. If the DL/UA/AA A350 rates are the only acceptable target for our 777 rate, then what is the logic that allows us to ignore the fact that those same airlines don't pay that rate to their 767-300 pilots?
Do you really think our NC (regardless of who that might be) is going to be able to get in front of the company and the NMB and demand DL A350 pay for every FedEx WB pilot?
Connect the dots for me on that. We're going to use the industry as a benchmark, but only the parts that we like?
I have already covered this in this thread. The reason why we don't have a seperate 777 payrate is because the company's argument in 2015 was that "we are already paying our MD11/767/A300/777 pilots more than what DL pays their 777 pilots, we're not going to give the 777 guys even more."
To allow the company to now pay our 767/A300 guys less than industry leading widebody pay would be giving up that position that we successfully held in previous contracts.