No.. not really, but I would not like to think that when I get to the left seat of the 737 I have reached the pinnacle of my career. I have 5000 hours there, and while it was fun, I like options that they could never offer. I LIKE GRU/NCE/FCO/NRT layovers..and I LIKE going to Europe and Asia... you will NEVER do that at SWA. It's good for some people, and I say good for them. I do find it absolutely amazing how some of their junior guys are whining little little school girls about the merger over there.. What, they won't get their first choice of vacation if some dirt bag AT guys are put ahead of them on the list... really??? But back to your question, I think that there are things from their contract that we might be abe to improve on.. I honestly do not know, but I hate having that bus service held up as the gold standard. If you remember, in BK, we all came back to them.. they haven't set any bars.... ever.

Not a SWA lover here, and what you say about never raising the bar is true, but, how about you give them a little credit for continually plodding forward (and I'll add that it has been on the backs of everyone else's contracts) and not having to go into bankruptcy. Sometimes slow and steady wins the race.

Well I cannot argue with any of that, but their pilots had nothing to do with them not going into BK.. just like WE had nothing to do with US going into BK. They are a different animal than we are. domestic only... one a/c type.. you know the list... And I really don't think that you can compare the two with any real competent metric other than the fact that we both fly airplanes. But I do think the "slow and steady" M.O. of Herb Kelleher has had it's run... witness the NEED for the AT merger.. There is no more organic growth they can do to compete. And the junior guys over there are about to get a real healthy dose of reality.

I'll take that healthy dose of reality at $134k/year and more days off!!

yea...well...standby for incoming because it sounds like our union apologists around here are trying to manage our expectations a good bit south of their contract. their reasoning is that we cannot be compared to them since they are not similar operations!

Right on LandGreen. Same will be said about comparing ourselves to FedEx and UPS. Last time I checked, every Item that passes through the cargo doors carries a price tag on it. Bag fees alone last year???? Either just over or just under a billion dollars. Lots of container cargo sales on top of that.

ALPA acolytes, remind us again how much per year we gave up in concessions in BK. Thats right, $1 bil a year.

Don't let yourselves be managed.

HOLD ON... hold on... whats another reason why size shouldn't matter? :D

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Tsquare, all of this is absolutely true imho.

What's going on here was Hockey vented about pay here versus there and was told why don't you quit and go there, their application window is open.

Which surprisingly was not warmly received. Because today SWA pays 30% more than we do for the similar mission 88 pilots for the same longevity not to mention they equal 747 pay. So if pilots are castigated for making that observation then it makes some of us wonder what the C2012 goal will be?

I mean we should (at the least) be able to say equal pay for the 88 and SWA 737 and that's not even taking into account 150-160 seats vs their 137.

And if asked, what are we willing to give up? First, we'll give up anyone who asks that question and second, we already gave up on scope.

So we pre-paid our raise to equal pay with SWA.

From I remember, the discussion was about being extended an extra day and hockey mentioned that if it happened to him, he would bang out sick the next trip to show the company. I think someone then said that really wouldn't show the company, but only hurt a reserve The "leave to go to SW" was probably said in frustration. :)

As Dennis Miller says, "Of course that's just my opinion. I could be wrong."
YouTube - Dennis Miller's rant on intelligence

That previous post about Jet airways joining Sky Team is scary. I know we have good protectins with the JV with AF, but what kind of Sky Team protections do we have?