I wholeheartedly agree! I was merely trying to make clear how horribly underpaid you AirTran Pilots are, especially the 737 pilots. I am quite certain that many of you would be shocked at just how little fares would need to increase to get back 2001 pay rates, adjusted for inflation of course.
On a side note. Management makes it abundantly clear why they believe pilots should not be paid what they were in the 1970's, and even worse, they don't even think we deserve the pay we had in 2001. But I have not heard one reasonable justification for the kind of pay and bonuses upper management and the executives get. The average Executive was paid about 40 times that of average labor in the 1970's, now they are paid 400 times that of their average labor! It seems to me that the ratio should have stayed the same throughout. It seems as if the financial blow in corporate america is always landed on the chin of labor and never shared equally by management.
True, since I have began looking " under the hood " recently, I can definitely say that AAI and RAH people are underpaid for what we do. However, I think most airline pilots with the exception of a well known few are vastly underpaid.
I would encourage anyone who has an airline job to look closely at the sec filings for his or her company and KNOW what he/she is really worth, DEMAND it, and ACCEPT nothing less. (Sorry to steal KDA from some former colleagues)