For once, I'm agreeing with TD...and that's saying something.

tper, I know where you're going (and going and going) with this and I agree 100% with you that CHQ union leadership left their FOs behind on compensation in the 2003 contract by not making it even close to 60% of captain wages, especially on the larger airframes.

WITH THAT SAID:

The captain payscales they agreed to for the larger airframes are the highest of any regional that negotiated a contract in 2003 (Mesa, ARW and CHQ). Both Mesa and CHQ saw improvements from their previous CBAs, while ARW was taking concessions from their industry-leading 2001 CBA built on pattern bargaining from ACA and Comair.

If you'd like, I can email you CHQ 2003, ARW 2003, Mesaba 2004 and XJT 2004 contracts if you'd like to compare and contrast each contract for yourself; sorry I don't also have MAG 2003.

Anyway, back on point - you cannot logically use Jetblue payrates issued in June of 2009 as a way to blast RAH pilots for payrates that went into effect in October of 2003. What you and the rest of us can and should do is point to the previous JBLU 190 payrates and the new JBLU 190 pay rates and say THIS is now industry average for this size airplane - go get it. Good luck and we're all counting on you.