I apologize for the old guard they have been obsessed with the “pay rate” since they were hired, hand shake deals, pulling up the ladder and an overall dysfunctional understanding of work rules.

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Wtf are you talking about? Work rule wise our big problem is reassignments. It used to be reassignments and lack of average calendar day, but that got fixed.

Profit sharing and STD/LTD are the two other big holes in our contract. The company opener offered delta PS so hopefully we can get disability fixed.

To your last point about imax i have no clue what you’re babbling about. Maybe switch to decaf.

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It’s a super confusing formula used to limit you to a rolling credit of 90. Each month it looks back of your last 8 months credit then uses 82 (i think it’s 82) as the credit for the 9th month and adds them together then takes an average. Whatever that number comes out to be is your “imax”.

Basically you can credit a lot for 8 months then the 9th month you’re “imaxed” and only have to fly what your limit is. You then get paid the minimum line construction value while only having to work up to your imax. So you could work zero days and still get full pay. If you drove your imax low enough you would only have to fly a portion of the following month as well.

I probably explained that really bad but it’s a good deal if you can get it to work for you. Lots of guys don’t mess with it.

where did he say that?

troll :cool:

OG Alaska pilots are the most secluded pilot group from the industry as a whole. They have internet, they must have friends at other airlines, yet they seem to think the POS CBA they are working under is not only industry standard, it is industry LEADING.

I think a large percentage of the pilot group is beyond ready for change though.

So far with this announcement AA management has changed the SEA LAX schedule from all RJs to the current 1 A319 and 3RJs to 4 mainline jets and 1 RJ. So that’s a plus. As a soon to be SEA to LAX commuter I’m pretty happy. Throw in LAX crews flying the 777 flight to LHR and I’m set for the duration.

This will be good for both pilot groups. If the AA international flights do well then more flights will be added to compete with Delta. And that’s the name of the game.

I think it will be a good thing for both airlines and both pilot groups. There are some things in our contact that are better than Alaska’s and vice versa. Overall our narrow body compensation is pretty similar, so it’s not like one group is undercutting the other. All the guys I know over there think they need big improvements in their contract, just like we need big improvements in ours.

The respective contracts are mostly irrelevant (scope aside) in a codeshare, you won't be cherry-picking each other's contracts unless there's an actual merger.

Yes, I know that. I was making reference to the posting back and forth about who’s contract is better and who sucks, etc etc.