Mamma
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That statement alone tells me how disconnected you are from 2/3 of this pilot group. I'm a 3rd year FO and I don't make anywhere near $100K. A handful of our super senior Airbus FO's might be near $100K if they are working their tails off. Our 190 CAs aren't averaging anything near $100K either. Don't even get me started about the 190 FOs. Most of them will be lucky to make $50K. The only folks making any real bank at JetBlue are senior CAs living in base, gaming PTX, and picking up RSA's The rest of us aren't doing nearly as well as the upper 5%. My guess is the average Airbus CA here makes about $125-130K. Only a select few do much better than that. There is no way the average pilot wage at this company is close to $100K.
$2 mm a year is pretty significant money, if your guys don't start feeding from the dues trough, it leaves lots of room for a small paid staff and a little bit of buying trips from the company for representation issues and meetings.
It's $166,000 per month. Do you really think that you can't get anything done for $166,000 per month? You could hire a full time director at $10,000 per month, a secretary at $4,000 per month and still have $150k to spend.
Of all the ACA/Indy Air people we picked up, I've only flown with 2 that I would consider worthy by character standards... All the others, are very ungrateful that Jetblue took them on after their demise.
How about some facts on how much this JBPA thing is going to cost-- they say 1% of my gross salary/year will be the dues-- crap, if everyone made a combined average of $100,000/year (and thats probably close) that would only generate $1.9 million to run a union... (that's assuming all 1900 will become members) Um, that doesn't even fund the "war chest" the company provides for free now... Nor will it even come close to paying all the lawyers, office fees, or union leaders' lunches... Many years ago when SWA was given money to start a union, wasn't that figure around $10 million 30 years ago?SO, how much are our "special assessments going to be to really start off an in-house union? Is it going to be what I put aside for my daughter's college? Will we in a couple of years, when dissastisfied with JBPA because they couldn't provide anything for us, be in Airtran's shoes-- looking to trade unions... I guess only a Navy guy could understand the humor in this...