that one always breaks my heart, Semper FI and RIP to all who gave all.

SWA pilots do not make 230k for 12 days of work. You can easily check that by looking at the other numbers in the letter they put out to the Airtran pilots. Remember the letter was intended to put the best spin on everything. A normal line at SWA has 90 to 95 trips for pay depending on the time of year ect... Usually they are around 90. Those lines are just under 13 days working on average. They then have to pick up flying to get to the 105 trips for pay to reach the 230 figure. That puts them at 14 to 16 days depending on the quality of trips.
The part about the average SW pilot working 12 days a month over the last few years was looking back and averaging how much each pilot worked after personal leaves, military leave, sick leave, reserve, vacation ect..... The average Delta pilot works even less with the same metric.

My point? Scope isn't for sale.

What's your point? Scope is for sale.

Please try to get something for scope when you sell it. This TA gets nothing. And if you are the White Knight for the junior guy, try not to outsource his job.

SWA captain 28 years Non check airman, non union rep, bid top 3% in domicile/seat

Worked 144 days total, all DH and Training included, average 137 trips or 120 hrs for pay a month, actual flight hours 824

W2 Box 1 $289,097.62

Box 5 $313,502.76 (Medicare wages)

Over 50 so I put extra in 401k

This year on track to bust $320,000 in Box 5

Hope this helps, we are pulling for you guys, hope you get what you want.

Cheers

19 Year line Captain - non-ck airman

I worked 204 days last year. (Avg 17 days a month)

I made $389k and change. It was an unusual year with lots of premium open time.

This year I'm working less (13-14 days a month) and will make $300k


2007 hire FO. 136k last year plus another 5k in per diem.

68k so far this year as of May 20 plus 2k in per diem.

Put's thing in perspective....

Remember..

wonder what happened to an increase in 2013?

A 13% pay increase by Jan 1st, 2013 will help with the DC fund. 19% by Jan 1st, 2015 will really help.

More stagnation? What will the 717s do? I would think that will help, a lot. How about early out offers? I think we have been stagnate for years because of something never seen before, a retirement age change that affects us all, not started by our airline. We have to just get through that, and pilot movement should get back to normal.

The 70 76 seaters only come if we get all 88 717s. Then a ratio of block hours is set up to ensure no shrinkage of total mainline flights versus DCI. Then park 148 smaller RJs. That sounds good to me.