Originally Posted by captnate702

career expectations = rates, retirement, benefits, upgrade.

We would get destroyed at SLI with rates 25% less, retirement is approx a third less. Don’t even get started on work rules, if the arbitrator looks at those we are truly screwed.

you are a fool if you think an arbitrator is gonna credit for our career expectations above SY pilots because we win the “base preferences” contest. Arbitrators go out of their way to stick to objective measures in SLI arbitrations. Rates are the absolute most objective measure because the fleets are the same.

Not saying it’s the only thing they look at but they absolutely look at it. To say that they do “not look at differences in same category pay rates” is blatantly a lie.