Originally Posted by
Ellen
You also might want to use this website to check pay scale as well. Seems you think ALPA will make your paycheck bigger . . . . Not True.
On your advice I've done so. This is what I learned:
4th year 50 seat CMR CA = $69
4th year 50 seat XJT CA = $64.
4th year 50/70/90 Seat SKYW CA = $61
Currently at SkyWest:
CR9 = 3% of the fleet.
CR7 = 32% of the fleet.
CR2 = 65% of the fleet.
Using these ratios and the 4th year captain example, assume a Comair $7/hr premium for the -700, and a Mesa $5/hr additional premium for the -900. I cranked up Excel to compute a straight blended pay rate for those aircraft = $64. Using Comair's contract we get a blend of $72/hr. Projecting future deliveries up to May 2007 results in $73/hr. I stand by my contention.
And if you think that the current SkyWest payscale isn't a direct product of pattern bargaining by ALPA and others you're nuts. It's like the one kid at school whose parents won't take him to get vaccinated. After all, all the other kids are vaccinated, so he'll be safe, right?
JA pays the pilot group not one penny more than what he thinks will prevent you from organizing. He'd like to see 49% vote for ALPA: 48% means he's been paying you to much, 51% and he didn't pay enough, and he gets to deal with an MEC instead of SAPA.
Originally Posted by Brad Holt 11-14-2005
please consider that our company is going out on a limb to do anything in the way of pay and work rules in the current environment.