Originally Posted by
HudBannon
I never got why one group of pilots (commuters) continued to get hundreds of dollars in benefits a month and another group of pilots (in-base) didn’t get a commensurate benefit. Really should be paying the in-base pilots more for COL.
Yes, I understand the circumstances it was created under, always seemed whack to me.
There are many benefits which apply only to a subset of the pilot group.
Example: us mil people are subsidizing healthcare for all the civilians, but we don't need it. Before anyone gets triggered I'm not suggesting we shouldn't have healthcare, just making a point.
All such benefits should be negotiated, that way the representative process generally provides proper weighting of priorities for the entire group.