Originally Posted by
FlyingViking
Take a step back and see how we are kicking each other about pay, instead of negotiation better pay with the company. Since there is (at least in my opinion) no different or harder to fly a 747 than it is to fly a DC-9, I believe the pay difference should be based on years with the company and wheter FO or CA. This would keep senior pilots who needs to be closer to home, closer to home and younger guys without kids to do the long hauls. A much better option for every single pilot on the list and it works awesome for the airlines who uses it.
Your idea is interesting. The other point you made about kicking each other instead of negotiating with the company is spot on. We aren't negotiating it. Instead we're hearing expectation mitigation drivel about "what are you going to give up" and "the company is losing money".
I get the impression that we are in a relationship with the company that is way too one sided. They ask, we give. We ask they decline. I hope this isn't the way it is, but again we're not getting information out of our elected officials (sounds like Washington
). I want the company to succeed and I want management to get rational compensation as well as all of the employees who're working hard to make the company succeed.
If we don't ask, we don't get. So are we asking?