Well heads up, enter the mothership padwan. I really dont know a "50-seat only guy" just depends on base flying. In my base its mostly 70 seats. I also would like to get together with you guys, but there is the great divide as far as I see it. I have a feeling that you guys are coming from a down and out situation, and have very negative feelings about MNGT/thiswholeairlinedeal. I am not a cool-aid pounder, but am very happy to go to work and go home, I think that alpa instills hate towards MNGT to prolong their survival. But anyhow, I hope we can get together and no one gets to screwed!
I can't speak for all 1700 or so pilots at ASA, but I will speak for myself. I don't think the SKW and ASA pilots will get "together", but we can share information with one another to help our situations. As crazy as it is sounds, flightinfo is the only place where I have been able to interact with SKW pilots. So here I am.
My point about the 700/900 pay comparison is to let you guys know, that what is being offered to you right now, is less than what was offered and agreed to by us and management back in 2002. The tough thing for ASA pilots is that the company wants us to freeze our 700/900 pay for 2 years, on an agreement that is already 4 years old. Throw in cost of living increases over the years and into the future, and it ends up being a paycut.
What I would like to see happen is for SKW pilots to say to managemnt is, "Hey, these rates are less than ASA's current rates which are already 4 years old."
Being able to split your rates is obviously a step in the right direction, and I will not let that go unnoticed. Credit should be given where it is due in that respect, I just think more should be given to you guys.
SKW has been making millions in profits over the years, and they can't even make an offer to you that keeps up with inflation! End result is you are making less money than you did the year before.
As far as being anti management. That is not true. Look at the ASA pilots as being anti-ineffective management. We have alot of respect for what Jerry has created in SKW, and wish we could be a part of a succesful and respected airline. Unfortunately, our ontime performance, mishandled bags, and customer complaints are pretty much the worst in the industry every single month. The local Atlanta newspaper, the Atlanta Journal Constitution just ripped our company a new one last week, and deservidly so.
Anyway, the whole reason I wrote on this thread was to point out to you guys what some of these rates look like compared to what is going on across the hall from you.
