Wages will probably stay low for a long time as well because when the negotiations occur the company will say: "well this pay you are requesting is much higher than the industry average for airlines operating Airbus A320 series aircraft, therefore we are not willing to go that high"
Union will reply "correct but not compared to pre-911 times"
Company: "correct but we are not in pre-911 times, we are all still feeling the pain of the fuel and oil crisis and if we raise pay too high we will lose out on the bottom line and will not be profitable"
I am in an all around crap mood, friends are losing their jobs, I and being moved to the bottom of the seniority list to our worst base more than likely...if i get to keep my job. I just had crew scheduling give me something I really did not and should not have received IF we had never let up on OUR PREVIOUS CONTRACT LAST YEAR!!!!!!
Rant continuing in my head....
