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humvee,
You can thank SWAPA for that huge pay bump. Not ALPA.
Let's just hope Airtran does not end up being a boat anchor to SWA...
Let's hope this little experiment turns out OK or we'll all be looking at a 100% pay cut!
It doesn't paint a complete picture to multiply 1.138 X 133 = 151.35. In fact what you said is not correct. A trip is worth MORE than an hour. That's why it's 1.138 and not .862. How I look at the SWA FO rate is like this. My hourly pay rate by the end of this year will be 168. I average 82 hours of credit per month or $13,776. Divide that by 133 an you get 103.6 trips per month I would have to fly if I worked at SWA ( I have 12 yrs longevity at AT). SWA pairings have more trip credit than a typical airline has hourly credit. I want to say the pilot group average is 112 or 117 trips per month or something like that. Hope that helps.
- interesting side note; $168 at 12 year pay (our scale goes higher) puts AirTran at the fourth highest paid US narrow body pilots behind SWA, Delta and Alaska. Who would have thought that 10 years ago.