Looking for Hawaiian A321 Pay Rates

[waveflyer]

Well, point of note, you're not Hawaiian. So what you'd rather see happen is inconsequential....

Second, you do realize (well maybe not) how many inter-island flights we run out here? Just OGG-HNL alone is in the neighborhood of 25 departures out of OGG just to HNL. That does not include to OGG to KOA, LIH or HTO... The skies would not be able to accomodate an equivalent number of RJ's to keep up with demand.. Nor would there be enough gate space...

OGG-HNL is most likely the most traveled city pairing in America.. As far as passenger counts I highly doubt the Delta/US shuttles between BOS-NYC-DCA are as much

More or less consequential than how you'd feel about it??

So I'll re-word-
Of all the acquisitions that might still be approved, I'd rather see Hawaiian than just about any other.
Not to be confused with hoping it happens- just that the others would suck worse and have more pilots.

That is interesting stuff though inter island- I knew there were lots of flights but I was thinking along the lines of OAK-LAX

impressive -

(But don't be naive about delta and RJ's - there's no room for them in a whole lot busier places than Hawaii )

 

[BentOver]

(But don't be naive about delta and RJ's - there's no room for them in a whole lot busier places than Hawaii )

Worked at Comair back in the pre-bankruptcy days....(And also the early stages of the beginning of the end when we started taking pay freezes and then pay cuts...I bailed early in that mess) I know full well the history of Delta and their 50 seater debacle...

The problem with our airpace (as opposed to say NYC) is throwing unlimited RJ's on basically two main routes into HNL.... basically everything inter-island comes in over two main fixes from the East or one fix from Lihue... there is simply not enough room.. In places like NYC you have many more arrival gates to transverse the airpace... Here it would be mayhem all day every day.. late flights, holding etc etc... see below

I don't believe even a 70 seater would work on our inter-island routes... Not quite enough ASM's and increasing to gain them would saturate the skies and gate space..PLUS OUR CONTRACT WON'T ALLOW IT... ANY MERGER WOULD TAKE PARTS OF OUR CONTRACT....YOU BETTER BELIEVE INTER-ISLAND SCOPE WOULD BE ONE OF THEM.....

I commute to OGG often, and it is difficult to find flights with 20 open seats. It does happen but not very often....

Plus what regional would be willing to come out here to start an operation? Regional pilot salary just won't cut it out here plain and simple unless you have ohana to stay with (unless a regional guy wants to commute 2500 miles and pay for a crashpad that costs as much as most apartments on the mainland..)

CHQ already tried with 170's.. Mesa is out officially in like 7 days.... For the most part Hawaiian has got a strong lock on inter-island.... not saying something bad couldn't happen.. But our operation runs like clockwork out here.. And it's alot of flights with minimal turn time under 20-30 minutes...all day long..

Throw a regional at local Hawaiians, with shoddy operations, poor aircarft reliability, and late flights.. and it is a recipe for disaster.. (you should see the airports out here when things do get mucked up due to a late arrival..) It occasioanlly happens at Hawaiian, but have it happen on a routine basis....no good..

You guys at SWA have a good thing going for yourselves.. Good pay, good schedules (the duty days aren't for me but to each his own) But I'm with others, I rather see us combined with Delta before SWA... personal opinion...

 

[canyonblue]

Good pay, good schedules (the duty days aren't for me but to each his own)..

So you enjoy duty days over 8 hours?

But I'm with others, I rather see us combined with Delta before SWA... personal opinion.

I would love to see you guys acquired by Delta. :beer:

 

[HighSpeedClimb]

So you enjoy duty days over 8 hours?



I would love to see you guys acquired by Delta. :beer:

And Stapled......:beer:

 

[HA25]

And Stapled......:beer:

yeah... too bad Lee Moak himself already credited HAL pilots for giving THEM the bar to build their latest contract on..

The cats' out of the bag on the topic of who's a bottom feeder.... Hawaiian Pilots SET the bar, not lower it (sorta like SWA historically has done until after the 9/11 cuts made it look so good)..

Like I said, Southwest is the ugly girl at the end of the bar after a long night of drinking... only looks good now since the rest of the industry's contracts were gutted .... but we're building those back up now, so you could say "we're sobering up" ..

 

[HowardBorden]

The cats' out of the bag on the topic of who's a bottom feeder.... Hawaiian Pilots SET the bar, not lower it (sorta like SWA historically has done until after the 9/11 cuts made it look so good)..

I'm not sure if you don't know the meaning of the phrase "SET the bar"', or your purposefully using it incorrectly. The term set the bar came from high jumping and pole vaulting. It literally means moving the bar up high enough that only the best competitor can get over it, thus "setting the bar."

Currently in US aviation, UPS is "setting the bar" for pay rates. Their highest rate on all equipment is $262 an hour.

Clearly this seems to be a slam on SWA, and even that's a hugely inaccurate. If you compare narrow body rates at SWA to narrow body rates at Hawaiian, SWA's highest rates are $49 an hour higher with better monthly guarantee and rigs. If you want to compare wide body rates to SWA rates, SWA is leading by $17, add in international override SWA still leads by $12 an hour with better guarantees and rigs.

Look, HA seems like a great place to work, I would be proud to work there without hesitation, but claiming they are currently setting the bar simply isn't accurate. Hopefully your future contracts will support that claim.

I am absolutely sure you will retort that SWA used to be the lower paid airline in the industry, and I can't dispute that, but we are talking about present day and portraying SWA as lower paid hasn't been a true argument for a decade. My entire tenure at SWA I have been compensated at a level well above industry average. If you want to argue what went on a decade ago then your living in the past and need to adopt a more timely argument.

 

[FlyinGuy]

Was HA setting the bar 5,10,15, or even 20 yrs ago? I don't know and that is why I am asking.

 

[HA25]

Was HA setting the bar 5,10,15, or even 20 yrs ago? I don't know and that is why I am asking.

at one time in the 80's ... HA had the highest paid DC9 pilots in the US..

 

[Dan Roman]

at one time in the 80's ... HA had the highest paid DC9 pilots in the US..

I'll take a stab at quick history lesson. True statement by HA25. Before deregulation, Republic, Allegheny, and Hawaiian Air lead the industry in DC9 pay rates, whoever had the most recent negotiation was the highest......then deregulation......fare wars, Mid Pacific (started by ex HA execs with money they got from HA) and fares as low as $9.95 one way to Maui. World wide expansion with L1011's and DC-8's etc. etc. The ups and downs (no pun intended) since than could be a good book. HA has had a wild ride to say the least. Our last contract, when signed, exceeded Delta in some areas, but more importantly didn't put any concessionary pressure on the industry standard. Hence Lee Moaks positive comments about HA I'm guessing. Now Delta has raised the bar above us (with our help!) now our contract is coming due so we will see. HA25, I have to correct your perception about the old timers here. Yes we are happy, we built the labor part of our airline through some very difficult times. We did what had to be done and now have a great airline to show for it. Don't think when the time comes we will lie down and let management roll over us. It will be a battle, Dunkerely will not be Santa Claus, but the perception of happy employees doesn't mean we don't think we deserve to be properly compensated.

 

[HA25]

While I hope we can "fix it" in our next contract, sadly I don't think we will get anything near what you are hoping for. Too many pilots with brothers, sisters, Moms, Dads, Aunties, Uncles, etc. working in various places around the company. Too many pilots being just happy to have a great gig in the islands and too many pilots hearing their relatives bitch and moan about how the pilots are putting their jobs at risk for a strike to ever happen. Hopefully with all the new blood it will change and I'll be proved wrong.

We're a great airline providing a great QOL and paycheck. I love it here and wouldn't want to work any place else but I don't think we will ever match Delta's money or work rules.

Hey Dan, I remain more optimistic than others, even if cautiously so... In the end only time will tell what we ask for and what we get in 2015...

As my signature says, we're all just a small part of a big process..