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Originally Posted by UnusualAttitude
I don’t expect BrianH to lead.
If you think 1.5 hour reserve callout is industry standard then you’re not trying to look. If you think running two or three bids concurrently while enforcing seat locks up to 60 months, you aren’t looking. These are major QOL issues. Lack of a min calendar day rig, etc. And for those saying, “company will never agree to that”, I have heard the same thing for 8 years about the A plan and yet they agreed to improve the benefit. Unfortunately for those about to retire, the give required was deemed too much.
Not sure the point you’re trying to make on the A-plan “buyout” as it wasn’t a “buyout” it was a replacement and one that other properties have access to now so not some unique advantage at Purple.
If you don't get that we only have 2 recoveries and 2 launched at the most in a day, you don't understand the operation. As Max said, you are comparing apples to oranges when looking at reserve. You also knew what our reserve rules where when you got hired 8 years ago. How long were you in the hiring pool? If you were hired 8 years ago, that is the time frame that we were brining the guys on board who had been swimming in the pool for 2 years, plenty of time to figure out what was in our contract.
If you did a lateral bid or a down bid, who cares how many bids they ran while you were seat locked. You made your choice.
The poster I quoted mentioned a cash buy out of the A plan and that for example, someone with 25+ years would get $2.5million, someone with 10 years (40%) would get $1million (40%) and someone with 5 years would get 20%. That shows a complete lack of knowledge of how investing works. Using the 10 year pilot as the standard with a $1million buyout, someone with 25+ years would need to get about $4million to have the same benefit as the 10 year pilot got.
Bottom line is that a lot of the pilots complaining here about the TA are just out for themselves and making their own money grab while trying to create a division between the pilots who have been here 20+ years and the pilots hired within the last 10 years.