Reserve Flexibility
#151
TTS is a good product, people who complain generally don't know how to use it properly. I would like to see more transparency about expected reserve availability - sometimes the ability to drop / trade with open time seems arbitrary.
Besides that, complainers will complain.
Besides that, complainers will complain.
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TTS is a good product, people who complain generally don't know how to use it properly. I would like to see more transparency about expected reserve availability - sometimes the ability to drop / trade with open time seems arbitrary.
Besides that, complainers will complain.
Besides that, complainers will complain.
#153
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Agreed, OTL limits are ridiculous. The software itself is fine.
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If you can't figure it out, that’s a you problem. Not really surprising coming from you, I guess.
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There is absolutely no reason we shouldn't be able to see what other pilots are looking for in pilot-to-pilot trading. Other than that, TTS is solid.
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If only...if it were an accurate statement (it's not).
I found the Pan Am contract for various years some time ago. It was interesting going through it. At the absolute peak of their pay, the 747 CA was hitting $500k in todays dollars.
Thing is, that was the very absolute peak, it lasted for just a few years (at most) and there were very few of those jobs. In fact, the entire industry was significantly smaller pre-deregulation in general, and most of us wouldn't have jobs had it not been for the massive expansion the industry enjoyed.
That doesn't even touch on how much better the current job is, as we don't have to endure yearly layoffs in the low seasons anymore (that was SOP back then).
So top end senior UA Capts were to make $80,000 in ~1977, a current inflation adjusted amount of $440,000. I think we can all agree that that is only the lower end of NB pay these days, not a senior triple CA.
The 80's were a bloodbath, with de-regulation coming later in the 70's that saw the rise of discount carrier SWA and bankruptcies and liquidations galore.
I found the Pan Am contract for various years some time ago. It was interesting going through it. At the absolute peak of their pay, the 747 CA was hitting $500k in todays dollars.
Thing is, that was the very absolute peak, it lasted for just a few years (at most) and there were very few of those jobs. In fact, the entire industry was significantly smaller pre-deregulation in general, and most of us wouldn't have jobs had it not been for the massive expansion the industry enjoyed.
That doesn't even touch on how much better the current job is, as we don't have to endure yearly layoffs in the low seasons anymore (that was SOP back then).
So top end senior UA Capts were to make $80,000 in ~1977, a current inflation adjusted amount of $440,000. I think we can all agree that that is only the lower end of NB pay these days, not a senior triple CA.
The 80's were a bloodbath, with de-regulation coming later in the 70's that saw the rise of discount carrier SWA and bankruptcies and liquidations galore.
In the 80s, my dad was making in around $85K/yr and homes in SoCal would sell for around $140K. Those same houses now go for $1.5M+. So in other words, it would take an (asset) inflation adjusted wage of approximately $970K/yr to reach actual parity with a slightly upper-middle class worker from the 1980s. $440K/yr sounds like a lot of money, but it's not, given what has occurred in the housing market.
In other words, we make slightly less than half of what a 1980s middle class white-collar worker made.
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A major thing missing from this inflation discussion is the rise in asset prices. It's one thing to compare the relative dollar amount of a wage, but focusing there masks what the value of your labor is actually worth. It's another discussion altogether when you compare today's wages and their ability to acquire important assets, like houses, for instance.
In the 80s, my dad was making in around $85K/yr and homes in SoCal would sell for around $140K. Those same houses now go for $1.5M+. So in other words, it would take an (asset) inflation adjusted wage of approximately $970K/yr to reach actual parity with a slightly upper-middle class worker from the 1980s. $440K/yr sounds like a lot of money, but it's not, given what has occurred in the housing market.
In other words, we make slightly less than half of what a 1980s middle class white-collar worker made.
In the 80s, my dad was making in around $85K/yr and homes in SoCal would sell for around $140K. Those same houses now go for $1.5M+. So in other words, it would take an (asset) inflation adjusted wage of approximately $970K/yr to reach actual parity with a slightly upper-middle class worker from the 1980s. $440K/yr sounds like a lot of money, but it's not, given what has occurred in the housing market.
In other words, we make slightly less than half of what a 1980s middle class white-collar worker made.
I found a graph starting in the late-80's for LA, and home prices were very consistently averaging $150k until the late-90's where they eventually hit $500k by 2006, then dropped due to the recession, then have climbed up again.
Housing has been compressed everywhere starting around 2015 or so. If you owned prior to Covid you're doing OK, ours was $175,000 bought in 2008, but those who are new entrants are really hurting. At least with our income you can out purchase most of America even on one income (except in certain hotspots like Socal).
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