Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
My response to your post was complete sarcasm. I agree with you 100%. When the merger was announced I was hoping we would get the NWA guarantee of 75 hours and 1.5X pay above 80. That system is much better than the stupid GS deal we have now. I don't see how anyone can argue that our current GS system is superior. It may pay more total dollars out, but it goes to senior guys in base who are willing to put themselves on reserve to get the GS trips that come up.
It sounds good on paper, but when executed as per NWA’s flying, it wasn’t. Read the numbers in the SLI mediation report. You can boast about this all you like, but the facts are on paper in the mediation hearings. If you simply look at the 1000/1200 hour monthly FAA limits, you can quickly see that the max monthly numbers are not supported here. As an example, even if every pilot was able to fly to the FAA limit (which they did not), domestically they could only fly an additional 3.33 hours. Hardly the giant loss portrayed by some of you. Yes our system favors the senior guys, but again, do you think that seniority is not worth anything? Should we just give everyone 3 weeks of vacation and call it even?
Having said that, if the old system was 1.5 X anything over 78 hours, then it would probably become a significant difference. Open for rebuttals.