Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
I'm with you on improving in all those areas. But using the MD-88 Captain category as an example... a $60,000 annual pay increase (the difference in the current 2012 rate and the 2004 rate at 70 hrs/mo.) is NOT "meaningless." Not by any stretch of the imagination!
The pay raise by itself is DEFINITELY meaningless. If they offered C2K plus inflation, but relieved all scope protections the pay raise would be meaningless because your 'A' seat most likely just went bye-bye.
The pay don't mean squat without a seat to earn it in.