SW Pilots...any raises in 2013/2014???

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07-12-2012, 08:19 AM

#51

WHACKMASTER

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Position: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.

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Originally Posted by V169

Brakes Set - SWA has lots of *"old guy" FO's who never would have seen upgrade had all the AirTran Captains got to keep their seats. *The problem was that when it was time to sit down and hammer out an SLI the most junior AT Captain was over 1,000 numbers junior to the bottom SWA Captain. *With a combined list of over 7,500 pilots and a flat growth rate guess how many millions of dollars in career earnings would have been lost on the SWA side to let every AT Captain fill a SWA left seat?

SWA left seat? Now hear this.........WE BROUGHT OUR OWN AIRCRAFT AND AIRCRAFT ORDERS TO THIS PARTY. WE DIDN'T NEED "SAVING". They were not "SWA left seats". They were AirTran left seats that were brought into the mix.

How many millions of dollars in career earning would have been lost on the SWA side had the merger never happened and SWA remained stagnant. Am I the only one who finds this entitlement attitude with regard to our Cptn seats unbelievable?

Congratulations though. With the well orchestrated swindle job by SWAPA and SWA management wrt the B717s, you've essentially taken all of our Cptn. seats. You people gained 800+ upgrades out of this and yet you're still *****ing.

07-12-2012, 08:58 AM

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shoelu

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Originally Posted by WHACKMASTER

WE DIDN'T NEED "SAVING"

Tell that to your CEO, Board of Directors and share holders. That is where you should focus your anger. They all preferred a buy out to a stand alone AirTran. You were just along for the ride like the rest of us.

07-12-2012, 02:35 PM

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V169

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Pardon me but I couldn't call them "AirTran left seats" because that airline will cease to exist and become a footnote in aviation history by the end of 2015. Gotta love revisionist history--I just pulled up the pre-acquisition AT contract that topped out at $152 and $79 /hr for the left & right seat--the contract that brought out a 96% of the pilots to vote 97% in favor of a strike? If AirTran was growing and kicking ass back then in was on the backs of it's employees. Shoelu has it right--the WM's dream of riding off into the sunset as a senior cappy ended the day the AirTran CEO & BOD said "screw this running an airline stuff--it's way too much work--let's sell the jets to Gary Kelly and sit by the pool with cocktails while he deals with it!"