Originally Posted by
HermannGraf
You are so wrong man!
you see 1% on 80K is the same as 2% on 40K and 4% on 20k. In money it comes out to the same.
What I am suggesting would not increase or decrease the gap between the FO salary and the CP, it would remain the same. You just want the CP salary to be higher and higher comparing with the FOs. Yeah , Yeah you paid your dues, so have I brother, I have been flying commercially for more than 16 years (done metro and many more) so I know by now how the **** smells. By the way, I never said that I personally deserve any kind of higher pay raise than others. I am talking about the lowest paid pilots in the company.
My suggestion helps the BRO FOs the most and then the rest of the pilots that needs to get up to an acceptable level. You see... it's not about me you or the low paid CPs that you mention. It is about starting repairing the industry one step at the time and get the guys at the bottom of the pay scale up to a level that is not for MC. Donals or any other place that you can go and work as a high school dropout.
What you did or did not during your FO time is not relative to the story here but I can say that much that it seems like the FOs in the company today have much more balls than what you had at the time. At least they say they dont like the current situation and if you did not know, freedom of speach and fighting injustice is a traditional American thing that not you or anybody can shut up.
Wrong about what? Saying I support equal improvements for all??? You'd rather keep things divided in the pilot group and continue with "us against them" mentality that management loves to use to divide and conquer?
I completely understand what you're saying, you however seem to lack the ability to comprehend what I was saying in my response! I more than most, have always gone to bat for the f.o.'s here...However I don't believe that your idea of limiting/hosing those at the top(that helped the company achieve all the growth that created positions for the current f.o.'s), is required in order to bring up the pay for all the pilots in this company! I'm saying if Chip got an almost 40% pay increase last year, they had the money to buy ASA, Continental Express, Air Mekong, and that carrier in South America.... I feel there should be an ability to offer ALL the pilots a fair increase. You seem to feel that it's okay for the senior guys to keep sliding backwards since we no longer get the COLA we used to get yearly, and we no longer get longevity increases. By the way I was on the EMB 120 here for many years, and like I stated before, feel that the 5% increase for the f.o.'s on the EMB should have been made across the board for all of us! You have your opinion(no matter how one-sided and biased), and I have mine.
I've also discussed this with many of my f.o.'s and they all felt that a 5% across the board offer for all of us would have been the fairest way to go, and would more likely than not have passed. So that's not just my opinion!