Originally Posted by Bond

It's interesting, for a while there we had the worst bennies as far as money at CAL, but I thought it was worth it because we were getting to travel at the same classification as CAL employees. All my buddies at other carriers would tell me how great it was to just pay a one time fee or no fee at all per year, and how the classification didn't matter.

Well, now all those poor guys travel below mainline and pay just as much as we do. I have to admit a lot of our guys here at XJT complain about our bennies, but I get 8 free round trips a year (vacation passes) to go anywhere, typically international first class is what I get. So it balances out, even though regular pass travel is $25 round trip (domestic); and with the improvements it looks like we're on par with most majors.

It's interesting to compare, but just remember guys, it's your management and the language in the CPA that determines what you get. I could not believe when both Colgan and CHQ got their respective contracts, that the managements were ok with their employees getting SA5 status on CAL...that's lower than retired or any active employee or family members at both CAL and XJT. I just couldn't believe it. I have friends at both, and they thought for sure management was going to negotiate something better.