if you guys and gals are not careful you will have the whole country crying for our pay cuts. Even more than the industry as a whole has taken.
I like to figure my pay rate looking at how much time I am away from my family. So sitting reserve and flying 10 hours a month does not mean my hourly rate is up, but my quality of time at home has improved. Unless you have to commute to sit reserve (my case since 1999 for two different airlines)
It is hard enough to battle management, the press who advocate cutting mainline salaries if not flights and most of the regionals who are thinking very short term and wanting to take over the domestic world for less than half of what mainliners have made.
Before you og into the speech of the majors obviously paid too much or else they wouldn't be in their currnet situations. let me say this. It is not the employees that are killing these airlines. AND do not forget about the past years and decades that there have been profits.
This may be mumbo jumbo and confusing, but at least it is fact and that is my opinion!!
Thanks for letting me vent