Boy aren’t you a snow flake!! Cry cause people disagree and resort to name calling!! You are a POS!!!

 

Understood nor can I blame you

 

You Hypocrite

 

It’s spelled “completely fair” not “Completley fair.“. Before you accuse others of punctuation and spelling errors (your statement above are filled with), make sure your own house is in order knucklehead. By the way, look up the term ingrate. It means ungrateful, and had zero relevance, you ignoramus.

 

I’ve heard that argument more than once about getting more vacation off if you’re more senior. Makes no sense. Right now you have a week you can bid lines to conflict (or not) with. Even slide if you want. To imply this (+9 days) is something only possible with good seniority now is completely false unless your vacation happens to be the week between Christmas and NYE.

 

Upvote for being reasonable

 

How many Non-Bankruptcy ALPA negotiated CBA's gutted QOL by 40% at DOS?

 

How long have you been at SWA? I’m not sure what your LTD entails but our proposed LTD has a max own occupation benefit of $15k with 5 years of medical coverage. If yours is better than that bravo but this is a huge improvement for us over current book. You also mentioned DC retirement... this TA gets us 11% DC date of signing maxing out at 15% DC end of contract which is pretty similar to what you guys achieved in your last contract. As far as QOL goes, outside of your 6 hour daily rig (which is huge) I’m pretty sure our rescheduling and reserve language is far superior to SWA’s and we maintain that advantage in this TA despite some give backs. Our pay rates are obviously disappointing but as has been mentioned previously we were hamstrung by the Alaska arbitration and the NMB.

At the end of the day there are huge gains in this TA. 43% average pay increase, LTD, vastly improved scope, DC retirement, improved rig package, and retention of key QOL provisions. I’m also pro PBS as line bidding is archaic and agreeing to PBS moved the ball forward on a vastly improved rig package for us. I’m not sure in what world that is considered a failure. Maybe if SWA pilots didn’t undercut the entire industry on wages for 30+ years until 9/11 came along I could take your criticism a little more seriously.

At the end of the day this is a business decision. Short of another $15-$20/hr, profit sharing, and full retro there isn’t much more to be gained here. I’m not going to pretend like I’m not disappointed that we couldn’t achieve all of those goals this round but I’m also realistic. I’m not willing to gamble the other gains made here in order to possibly get an extra $20k/year in 12-18 months. If a SWA pilot wants to look down on me for that decision I couldn’t care less. I’d love to see how our proposed compensation package compares to SWA’s compensation package in relation to the rest of the industry when they were of equal size. I’m willing to bet it’s not close.

SWA pilots should be proud of what they’ve achieved. Your narrow body compensation is now on par with the legacy’s and your scope is the envy of the industry. You guys work your as$es off but at least you’re paid well for it. Bravo... well done. Let’s keep things in perspective though. This has been 50 years in the making. Certainly didn’t happen overnight or in one contract cycle for that matter.

 

Just keeping RES drops is worth waiting till June.
Any rule saved is for the rest of our time at NK.
They may be a$$$...les with huge egos but they have to answer to a board which will not allow this to continue with no end.

 

Lmao JUNE????? I assume you mean June 2019. What are you smoking and may I have some?