1. Restricting ELITT weekends helps the senior guys who fly during the week make use of ELITT.
2. Restricting number of lance duty periods to nine helps FOs use ELITT, net zero will go positive for once
3. Restricting first year guys to only getting second-year pay above their line total helps FOs who use ELITT, because they won't dump trips
4. Reducing the lance captain program by half won't change lance giveaways, because there aren't even enough turn lines to fill up 3.2%
5. Grandfathering lances is moot, downgrades are taking care of that
6. The payraises were fine, ranging from 6% to 10% in the worst recession in 50 years.
7. The TA offered restrictions on domestic codeshare and RJs which don't exist in our contract and are welcome.
8. The TA restricts far-international codeshare completely, like domestic.
9. The TA changes JA pay to double time
10. The TA changed overfly pay to only five minutes.
1 - restricting ELITT decreases all of our flexibility. it is restricting, not opening up.
2 - limiting lances to 9 duty periods will not create a positive net zero for FOs. there are other FOs who give away everything to play the VJA game, very successfully I might add because the company has manning so screwed up and has for years. it would be ZERO most of the time regardless. what it does do is restrict lanes ability to make money.
3 - screwing probation guys who aren't even here yet was one of the worst parts of this TA and you quote it like it was a gain. we all benefited from this and now you want to pull up the ladder. too bad you aren't a 60 something captain, you'd fit right in, except some of those guys even voted no because they were looking at how the TA affected the whole group, not just themselves, you should try it.
4 - cutting half the lances definitely affects the 100 guys that lose their star
5 - no they aren't, if you understood the current contract and the RLA principle of 'status quo' then you'd know that the current lances will keep their stars (CWA software programming issues not withstanding, do we get our IT guys at a 2 year tech school or what?) but since you apparently don't understand our 15 year old CBA, I'm not really that surprised that you don't really understand all the ins and outs of the TA either.
6 - 6% over 5 years. we weren't in the worst recession in 50 years when we started negotiations 3 years ago. inflation is likely to get worse not better with the way the feds are spending. 10% is a pipe dream. no way we were gettning much over 1% for those last 2 years, when every other group got 3% or so.
7 - restrictions on RJs were good. I expect to see the same in TA2. we have no codeshare w/o 5% growth in SL32. you may say that the company won't honor it, well, guess what, they might not honor the TA either. either we are dealing with men of honor on the other side or not, if not, God help us all.
8 - far int'l was the one place that SWA isn't likely to codeshare or go anytime soon anyway, certainly not in the next 2 years when or next contract is up. that protection wasn't worth much. we've already delayed the westjet and volaris codeshare.
9 - 2xJA was a good thing. there was much about the TA that was good, too bad it came wrapped in a crap sandwich.
10 - the TA took away the minimum .72 mach adjustmetn. I've seen it debated both ways but tend to agree that the .72 was worth more than the 5 minutes from 12.
there are answers. they might have helped you pre vote. you might get better answers on a SWA pilot forum instead of airing your whining complaints about your $1000 on FI. I'm a senior FO. I stood to gain as much straight pay rates as anyone but it wasn't worth it to me due to the stuff that came with it.
14 answers. not hard to do. won't convince you I'm sure but maybe you'll pay more attention next go round. I'm pretty tired of all the little girl yes voters that were too scared or wimpy to say they were voting yes on the van or at the bar. have the courage of your convictions in real life as well as on flight info. maybe you'll learn something pre-vote next time.
