Price of eggs has gone up almost 50% in a year, apparently due to low supply. Not saying we are eggs, but still.

It actually has. Lower CEO compensation related to higher long term profitability.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/best-pa...ies-1469419262

Inflation has nothing to do with it. This contract cements our place as a bottom tier airbus operator. We are giving up quite a bit of leverage, and they didn’t give us a raise out of the goodness of their hearts. I understand the NC’s position, but we have leverage and squandered it for a contract that’s in line with old legacy contracts.

Not sure about your reading comprehension here. I really thought I said the rates for our TA should have been way higher.....

a misleading lie you guys keep saying over and over again to scare people…yet it’s not true at all.

Not fooling me

Over 50 million egg laying chickens died from an Avian Flu outbreak in 2022, not the best example.

We agree, I am just saying leave inflation out of the equation, it has nothing to do with our pay rates and never will. I guess you could argue for a short term contract, it should be factored in, but it’s clear we won’t be industry leading in that regard.

I don’t agree with the “3 bites at the apple” approach the NC is taking, but oh well. I said my peace with my vote.

That isn’t what I was saying. Somebody said look at Teds paycheck, we must be doing fine. I was saying that doesn’t necessarily correlate.

Boy that NC PowerPoint really spooked you eh? The next time you snuggle into the cockpit, rifle through the paper work and find the sheet of paper with City pairs at the top, all the suggested routings for your flight. The last line of each route are the operating costs in $dollars, the greatest of which by a wiiiiiide margin is always fuel. The next is time, which is inclusive of all the crew and other costs divided by the flight time. Then occasionally you have overflight costs for Cuba or Colombia etc.

Add all those up and get the operating costs for that particular flight. Now take what you think industry standard compensation would cost them additionally to what you make now per hour for both pilots, multiply that by your block time, and divide it by that total for the other costs. It’s nothing, it’s a rounding error.

Paying us the market rate for narrow body crews is NOT what is going to prevent the company from turning a profit.

I laughed :-)