Originally Posted by
Free Bird
This post does an excellent job of pointing out the small percentage of the price of a ticket that the pilots actually cost. There are other cost that need to be factored in. Items such as medical benefits, retirement cost (I think 13-14% now) sick leave etc all add cost to the above equation.
IMO we are worth and deserve more than what we are currently making. Keep in mind logic has nothing to do with our pay, management will keep every penny they can from us. It is after all their job to do so. It's DALPA's job to get every penny they can for us. Just hope DALPA realizes that management won't give us one penny more than what we demand.
I'm not necessarily saying the poster's math is dead on... although I doubt the "real numbers" would be substantially different enough to change the basic point that is being made. FYI, I think the poster did try to account for the "other costs"...
"If every passenger with this load factor directly paid me $1.30/hour that would have covered my $150/hour 2009 wage. We have various employee benefits, and credit hours that are not directly productive, so ballpark we could probably agree $.70/hour more might cover those extra costs?"