Northwest pilots approve cuts
 

Northwest pilots ratify interim pay cut

November 14, 2005, 5:29 PM

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Northwest Airlines Corp. pilots ratified a temporary pay-cut deal Monday that gives the nation's fourth-largest airline some of what it wants while negotiations continue on permanent concessions.

The vote was 63.6 percent in favor of the temporary pay cuts, said Hal Myers, spokesman for the Northwest branch of the Air Line Pilots Association.

The deal will slash hourly pay rates by 23.9 percent, saving Northwest, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September, $215 million per year. That's on top of a 15 percent wage reduction that took effect last year.

Pilots for Eagan, Minn.-based Northwest earn $35,000 to $206,000, depending on seniority and the planes they fly.

Northwest is Michigan's largest passenger air carrier and has a hub at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

They know they don't have a choice. They didn't back up the mechanics and now "what goes around comes around." NWA went cheap. I bet they could have gotten 40%-50% out of the pilots.

My roomates dad is on a CA on a 744, and he told us that his salary will be same as it was in 1992, believe he was on 727 back then. Thats a huge pay cut!!!