Originally Posted by
capncrunch
You are incorrect and I'll tell you why. Although FNWA took a raise in hourly pay, we took a hit in work rules which actually equated to a pay cut. Every FNWA pilot I've flown with is making less now than with our previous contract. That is a fact not spin.
The 13% number was not made up, it was the number that your negotiating team agreed to. At SOC a 757 Captain was at $144 an hour, he is now at $175. All Delta pilots averaged about 83 hours per month pay last year so to equal that pay, at NWA you would have had to get paid 101 hours per month to overcome the pay differential. In 2008, fNWA pilots averaged 20 minutes a month more pay than fDAL pilots, somehow getting to to 18 hours per month extra seems off base.