Silver02ex

You right, why use current numbers when we can use the ones from 2-3 or more years ago and the “I know of.....” statement

flyguy81

For example: At SWA you can bid rsv and your guarantee is 89. If they call you out for a rigged 3 day you’re guaranteed 90.5. Let’s say you pick up a 2 day that pays 13. Now you’re at 103.5. You’ve worked 5 days.

At United you can pick up on days off on rsv but you don’t go over guarantee. AA from what I’ve been told can’t exceed a certain line value. Delta has green slips and rolling thunder. Different contracts, so most places have some way to augment pay if you choose to do so.

I wish I didn’t have to work more to make the same pay as the guy in the Widget 737. Yr 1-5 FO were sold out in the last cycle for whatever reason.

I can pick up 3 days of work and make what my wife would have brought in had she kept her job. Small price to pay for her to stay home with the kids since I no longer have to pay daycare costs, etc.

Longer I’m here the less I work since I’m making more. I only add 2 days a month now. 16 days off for me is plenty....and even with that I’m only away from my bed 8-10 nights a month.

at6d

Schedule flexibility is highly diminished at this time. Trip trade is limited. If you don’t like your line award...good luck.

flyguy81

I’ve had pretty good luck with TTGA right when it opens. Elitt is worthless....DEN is near 100 for net zero.

Swapa’s plan of killing MOT and allowing Elitt up to 48 hrs? out sounds better and better.

Duke Beamer

hahahaha. Your kind is ruining it for everyone.

Gotta be careful up there on those high horses, fellas. Wouldn’t want you to fall off and be down here with all the rest of us “kind”.

How dare you think for yourself, have an opinion, back it up with data, not be miserable, share any sort of different viewpoint?!?

Fly, I appreciate your honesty and your perspective in the midst of the usual suspects of Eeyores, Naysayers, Miserables, and DoomsDayers.

FleetSnarl

F Scott Fitzgerald said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

Because some people point out where our contract falls short and that it is entirely possible with some education, a little gumption, and some backbone that our pilot group could improve the lots of ourselves, our families, and our profession does not mean that we cannot simultaneously recognize that we pilots, and for that matter most Americans, have it better than the vast majority of people who live on this planet.

After all, earning more than $118,000 per year (most pilots at SWA) puts a person in the top 10% of income earners in the US. Moreover, if a person earns more than $32,400 per year (likely > 99.99% of SWA pilots), they are in the top 1% of income earners globally. The jobs we have here at SWA (or nearly any airline) are truly something to be grateful for. Our jobs provide us with an income, and a lifestyle, that most people on Earth can only dream about.

Should being able to recognize all that we have to be grateful for stop us from advocating for better? Or must we fall exclusively into one of two camps: complaining, never-satisfied Eeyores or grateful, always-compliant Pollyannas?

PropPiedmont

And I sacrificed nothing in my life, nor did my family, for myself to become a pilot. #IdFly4Free

Proximity

I think you missed his point entirely.

PropPiedmont

Or, maybe I’m highlighting one of his points....

Duke Beamer

No. It shouldn’t. And there aren’t only 2 camps, in reality. But FLY is taking a beating for having the audacity to be honest about his schedule, his pay, his QOL, etc.... I wouldn’t even say he’s being positive, it’s more just honesty and his personal situation. So I was applauding him, and his “kind”. There are other people on this thread (and all the other SWA threads) that like to categorize pilots into 2 camps.

I don’t see how that’s making things better, but I don’t think I’m in the same camp as some here.