Originally Posted by
FangsF15
Said another way, if the noncons did not get PS at all, their portion of the pool would be divided amongst the pilots.
In this way, there is zero reason for the company NOT to extend the “right thing to do” to the whole “family”. They have to pay the exact same pool regardless of who/how many gets it due to the PWA. If I’m management, it makes me look super magnanimous even though my (mgmt) cost is unaffected.
If the non cons didn’t get PS, their portion of the pool would just not be distributed. It does not go to the pilots.
With the calculation based on total wages, only a portion of “our” pool actually goes to us.
For some rough numbers, assume a pool of 1 billion. If non con wages are 40% of the base, and pilot wages are 60% of the base, pilots get 600 million and the others get 400 million. If the company terminated the non con plan, they get nothing and we still get 600 million.
It was done this way when there were two different plans, they ran two different calculations and not all of the pool as defined in the PWA was distributed.