Originally Posted by Iceberg (Post 3356890)

Cheers to you CBreezy!

Originally Posted by StartngOvr (Post 3356849)

A little help please on the “bad day/worse day” calculus? I thought I understood it but each time I’ve tried I don’t get the swap because “CAPPED RESERVE DAYS”??

Simply based on experience trying, I’ve come to the conclusion that if the whole month is black (my category is) there are no swaps that will work.


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Originally Posted by All 5 Stages (Post 3356877)

Check out my awesome post in the Low Hanging Fruit thread.

I think I'll call it the "Z-factor" for Generation Z. Z-factor is CPI + 1% or 2%, based on the assumption that CPI understates actual inflation.

Pay tables in the next contract for years 2, 3, and/or 4 should not be in actual dollars, but rather codified as Z-factor + X%. So year two would be year 1 pay tables plus Z+10%; year 3 pay tables would be year 2 pay tables plus Z+8%, etc. These would ensure our gains are in real dollars.

Inflation is here, and definitely not "transitory." The purchasing power of our Federal Reserve Notes aka U.S. Dollars is being eaten away, through no fault of labor or management. The Z-factor (patent pending) protects us against inflation.

A5S

Edit: There needs to be a clause written stating that pay tables will increase by Z + 3% beyond the amendable date.

Originally Posted by 20Fathoms (Post 3357026)

This!! We will need one heck of a raise on day one just to get us back to 2019 buying power.

Originally Posted by crazyjaydawg (Post 3356852)

This is an important discussion point, but I believe the PWA was amendable Jan 1, 2020. ALPA and the Co. elected to start discussions early.

According to the .gov, inflation was:

7.7 % Jan 1, 2020 to Jan 1, 2022.

9.1% Jan 1, 2019 to Jan 1, 2022 (the date of our last raise).

Originally Posted by Drum (Post 3356671)

retire already buck.

go enjoy your grandkids.

As to the other...........

I'm calling BS on his 4 hours a month. The guys I know who play that game spend their transcon time and layover tweaking the iCrew.

I don't believe him. Simple as that.

Originally Posted by Drum (Post 3356689)

Go away. You have nothing of value to add here.

I'd love to banter with you, but I have to leave for the airport and commute up for a trip. That starts tomorrow morning with a 0555 sign in. Because majority of our trips in NY are uncommutable on both ends, that's how the kompany builds them. Even in the top are suffering from this.

BUCK YOU right back at ya.

Originally Posted by hvydvr (Post 3356703)

Any discussion of using CPI increases on future amendable years to keep the company from using inflation against us?

We became amendable in Jan 2019. The company can agree to a 15% percent (or so....no idea of the correct number) increase and the pilot cost will be flat in 2019 dollars given inflation.

Our contract value is eroding just sitting here. I'm hoping there is some mechanism for this going forward to prevent rewarding the company for slow rolling the process.

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 3357054)

That is why getting contracts done on a timely basis is critical to over all success from a pilot standpoint.

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 3357052)

I generally spend 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes in the evening. Checking open time has made a tremendous amount of money for me.