Originally Posted by
odog1121
1.5% CA equates to 3% for FOs(pulled out of my arse but sounds right)? and what? a 5% override for 900 Captains. So I bet money wise that's probably enough for a 10% raise for your FOs if there was a pay freeze on the Captain side. Again, I don't know any "facts" about this, all I know is what I read on here. Everything I say is of course my opinion of what's fair. You can always ask for more later right?
Here are some facts...Every Captain at this airline was once an f.o.! Some of us actually had to start in the right seat of turboprops flying up to 13 legs a day with no autopilot, and a repeater on our side for ILS's flown down to minimums. Not once as an f.o. did I ever think or say that the Captain I flew with deserved less, so that I could make more.
I have been saying that all of us deserve a better offer without trying to cut out 1/2 of the pilot group to benefit myself... Perhaps you should consider that dividing the pilot group(as in give it all to the f.o.'s and none to Captains) will only produce infighting that will not be productive in getting all of us a better overall increase!!!