Originally Posted by iaflyer

Before you hit reply and dogpile me, think of this.

It's an easier sell to the other employee groups to say, "yea, we gave the pilots 3% raise over 4 years" than to say, "we gave them 20% right off the bat". However, the soft money (that we see and can figure out) makes up for it. We make more $$$ in our paycheck (for the same work) while the company gets to say, "what big pay raises?" and point to our $/hr rates.