A 3% bump in 401k to 16.5% for the straight 401k guys. I am a hybrid guy (have half of my pension) and still think we screwed the newbies by cutting them out of the pension. 😬

Free Swedish massages in all crew bases, and if we have to extend a $500 dollar gift card to the best steak house in the city we overnight at.

Sounds like a baby boomer pilot group decided like the machinists at Boeing that making sure they got there pay was the right thing to do, sacrifice the young for personal gain “all for me and everything just for me."

Right. Go ask the pilots of United, Delta, and US Airways how their pensions are doing. I'm happy to pull my cash away from "Management" every two weeks. That way, if it all gets ****ed away, I at least know who to blame.

I understand the loss of a pension but why not get yours AND keep it for the newbies? It was the wrong thing to negotiate away.

Amen Brother, no pgb and .10 on the dollar, no greedy hands other than yours on the money

You guys don't understand. I retain half of my pension for what amounts to 3% less in my 401k. Translation: The company puts 10% in my 401k and I still get half of my pension. That's why I say, we should make good with the newbies and Virgin folks.

Appears that the JCBA is headed to arbitration....Management has snubbed the negotiators at 2 of the sessions so far.....

Snubbed meaning they won't show up or that they are totally dismissing anything the union brings to the table? Arbitration so soon?

Getting ready for big scope gives not only to RJs but to Air Mexico flying your paxs south of the border. You MEC has been played.