I will be voting NO for the pay package. I won't vote for a plan that simply widens the income gap between CA and FO, dropping FO pay below 60% of CA pay. I won't vote for a plan that creates a separate -900 scale for CAs but not for FOs. I won't vote for a plan that incorporate graphs showing industry average wages that omitted carriers like Horizon and included carriers with 7+ year old contracts that are currently under negotation and have been for the past 2+ years.

I'm sorry but paying CAs more for larger airplanes at regionals but not the FOs is an antiquated way of thinking. That split of pay was created back when things were booming and it was easy to completely lowball the FO position because upgrades were moving quickly and people weren't riding shotgun for years on end.

The soldiers' of the 54th Massachusetts didn't accept less wages for doing the same job as other fighing men and SkyWest FOs shouldn't accept less money (i.e. -700 payscale for the -900) either. I can afford to say NO to the 1% I'm being offered for the -200, the 0% for the -700, and the 0% for the -900. If I'm only being offered 1% then it's painfully clear that SkyWest needs the money more than I do. Chip can keep it and hopefully in a couple years we'll be able to talk with him in more mediated negotiations.