PHL Reps poll/survey results

The results:

Age 65 survey.

The question was, do you support raising the retirement age from 65?

67% said No

33% said Yes

Here’s the breakdown (note: Philly has slightly over 1000 pilots):

513 total submissions

17 pilots answered not Philly based (which ended their survey)

1 bogus submission (using FO Drost’s employee number, who didn’t take the survey)

12 double submissions (these all happened within 24 hours of the second email going out asking pilots to take the survey, they answered the same as previously submitted, those votes were counted once, the value of the second email was minimal, next time we won’t send out a second email)

6 from other bases claiming to be Philly base (they were removed)

1 retired (this was removed)

2 unverifiable (the employee number was invalid, but bonus points for one pilot’s creativity).

474 valid submissions

156 were yes to raising the age from 65

318 were no to raising the age from 65

Merger Survey

The question was, should APA explore a merger with ALPA?

64.8% responded yes

35% responded No

and 1 pilot didn’t answer

Here’s the breakdown:

522 total submissions

16 bogus submissions (2 or more submissions for one employee number with differing answers. This was verified by asking the pilot which they preferred us to log)

15 pilots answered not Philly based (again this took them out of the survey with no further questions)

11 double submissions (like the other survey these came right after a second email, the responses were the same, so we counted one submission)

11 pilots from other bases claiming they were Philly (these were removed)

9 unverifiable submissions (employee numbers with letters or inaccurate numbers)

460 valid submissions

1 blank response to question

161 do not want merger talks

298 want merger talks