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A newhire Airtran FO doing airport reserve.

Airport Reserve pays the same hourly rate as everything else.

If trotting out our 2001 Contract continues to give you a chubby, let's break out the SWA 1982 Contract (SWA's equivalent year in business). That should be equally mirth-provoking. :D

Btw, when our 2001 Contract was negotiated, the average time on Reserve was a few months. I spent one month on Reserve as an FO, one month as a Captain . . . total Reserve in 12 years - two months; that was the atmosphere that contract was negotiated in . . . the logic was that Pilots spent a year or two as an FO, and the remainder as a Captain, so the negotiation capital was spent accordingly. By 2010, that had changed tremendously, and the improvements were largely spent of the FO scales.
 
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Airport Reserve pays the same hourly rate as everything else.

If trotting out our 2001 Contract continues to give you a chubby, let's break out the SWA 1982 Contract (SWA's 8th year in business). That should be equally mirth-provoking.

Btw, when our 2001 Contract was negotiated, the average time on Reserve was a few months. I spent one month on Reserve as an FO, one month as a Captain . . . total Reserve in 12 years - two months.

I'm glad you got hired at the right time Ty. We have plenty on this side as well, but the ones that didn't are living a different job.....as you stated in your post above. And I agree that we have that as well, but maybe to a lesser extent.

Your 2001 contract is what you've been work under until SW stepped in...right? Are you actually trying to refute that? It doesn't matter to me whether you were working under a contract dated 2001 or 2008. It was YOUR current contract at the time. How are trying spin that as anything else? Is the sky green in your world?
 
Red, this has been explained to you and everyone else on here a million times.

I know you have a lot personally invested in believing that somehow, we would still be working under that contract 14 years later, but

We had already voted down the 2010 rates when they were offered to us in 2008


and,

We grudgingly accepted them the third time around because of the merger.
.

Over and Out.
 
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Red, this has been explained to you and everyone else on here a million times.

I know you have a lot personally invested in believing that somehow, we would still be working under that contract 14 years later, but

We had already voted down the 2010 rates when they were offered to us in 2008

and,

We grudgingly accepted them the third time around because of the merger..

Over and Out.

I understand that and I'm done talking about it as well.

Come on over...you'll like it here. Starbucks on me, especially after you toss it on my shirt. :)
 
I understand that and I'm done talking about it as well.

Come on over...you'll like it here. Starbucks on me, especially after you toss it on my shirt. :)

Now, that's pretty clever! :D

Thanks, I'm getting tired of the re-hash, too. It's like kicking a rock . . . at first it might make you feel good, but eventually, you just end up with a sore foot.

:beer:
 
What is with the new DRC? According to SWAPA AirTran has filed a new DRC concerning MOUs SWAPA signed with SWA in Nov 2011 and Dec 2012. The Nov MOU stated that all AirTran pilots would be at SWA by Dec 31, 2014. The Dec MOU said that the SWA 717 ATL domicile that was in SL 10 would be changed to a 737 domicile. So I'm trying to figure out why is AirTran complaining at this late date, and what are they hoping to accomplish?
 
What is with the new DRC? According to SWAPA AirTran has filed a new DRC concerning MOUs SWAPA signed with SWA in Nov 2011 and Dec 2012. The Nov MOU stated that all AirTran pilots would be at SWA by Dec 31, 2014. The Dec MOU said that the SWA 717 ATL domicile that was in SL 10 would be changed to a 737 domicile. So I'm trying to figure out why is AirTran complaining at this late date, and what are they hoping to accomplish?

From what I remember from the conversation I had with an ALPA rep...It has to do with SWAPA pushing SWA (and getting an MOU) to have a vacancy bid for all remaining (uncaptured?) CA slots in the event that all AT aircraft/personnel are not across the partition by 12/31/2014. This prevents an AT CA from keeping their seat if SWA cannot effect an expeditious training plan. ALPA is none to happy that these MOUs were negotiated and signed without them at the table.

I understand SWAPA's reason behind the MOUs and I know a number of CAs are hoping to keep their seat by deferring their transition until the very end.

Phred
 

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