Please put the crack pipe down, and the book on Herb called Nuts. I work for a corporation that despises its pilots. They blame us for their management failures, like the -300's going into retirement. We have 12 hour duty day international turns, and we are not allowed to get off the airplane. The director of flight ops tells us to grab a muffin at the hotel before you start your day, we are not provided food by the company. Our hotels suck, we stay at a lot of holiday Inn's. In fact scheduling asks our pilots to sleep in the crew room when they can't find a hotel for you on a reroute.
We are 4 years past due on a contract and our management believes Allegiant pilots are overpaid. If you think time is on your side, good luck. Do you think they hired Randy Babbitt to negotiate against employees for good will?

Bahahaha. I wish our pilot group could be as optimistic about this as you are but in reality the company is dragging their feet in a big way and the pilots aren't mad enough to force the issue (not sure if they ever will be). I don't see an acceptable TA in sight until the MAX shows up next year and they start getting parked because we won't fly them. You're being a little too optimistic about things me thinks.


Btw, the conversion is 15% not 11%. So 1 hour of block at the "normal" airlines equates to 1.15 TFP.

Multiple our rates by 1.15 to get the hourly conversion.

THIS!!!! We could have a contract at SWA if people would just use some common sense. :mad:

Oh this is gold. http://www.volnation.com/forum/image...lt/popcorn.gif

Yet ya'll still taxi at V1-5knots.

Oh, and you guys realize we have zero retirement guarantee at SWA? 10% of our pilot group receives zero dollars in retirement from the company.

The old kool aid narrative from company pilots that would end up in our union, is that we can't ask for retirement because the company would have to give it to the flight attendats too.
Our own union would compare us to flight attendants for compensation, not Delta pilots.

I know, we have a group at SWA that does not know how to act like a union yet. Its their first airline job and they have learned nothing, even though they have been at SWA 20 years.

Precisely. Fortunately not everyone taxies at ludacrous speed and it seems that there is less and less of that going on (but still WAY too much).

We were on a parallel taxiway a few weeks ago and doing 12 knots. Our own company aircraft that was behind us pipes up on ground freq and asks, "Is everything okay up there guys?" I refrained from replying and so did the ground controller. DOUCHEBAG!!

Luke AFBaby..

Funny you should write that as it did indeed happen in PHX. Shocking......I know.