RAH TA

[dbrault17]

I wholeheartedly would love 100% DH pay. I average 1 to 2 DH every 4 day. Just last trip I was reassigned and ended up with 4 deadheads. It comes out to about $15-$30 every trip I'm missing out on with only 75% pay. Captains are obviously missing out on way more.

But 75% is what we were are offered. That's what's in front of us. And if we vote this one down, I'm not convinced that we will entertain a new offer anytime soon that may include 100% DH pay. So I'm willing to take the increases in other areas and take my 75% nap time.

 

[Kingairer]

I know you guys have no wide bodies (TAKE THAT EASTIES) but when you have to deadhead from IAH-NRT, you want 100% deadhead pay.

American has plenty of widebodies, just ask them. Anyways, all three legacy majors have similar numbers of widebodies.

 

[Seggy]

American has plenty of widebodies, just ask them. Anyways, all three legacy majors have similar numbers of widebodies.

Legacy Airways didn't have any before, but the Easties said they did and didn't want the Westies to have them

Yes 'Merican has them.

 

[BobDDuck]

Legacy Airways didn't have any before, but the Easties said they did and didn't want the Westies to have them

Yes 'Merican has them.

I'm pretty sure airways had two fleets of widebodies.

 

[Seggy]

I'm pretty sure airways had two fleets of widebodies.

They had like what, 35 total? Not that many compared to say Delta at the time even preNWA merger.

 

[derg]

100% deadhead is a wonderful way of nudging the company into making more efficient pairings/rotations/trips/whatever-your-shop-calls-them

 

[chrisreedrules]

100% deadhead is a wonderful way of nudging the company into making more efficient pairings/rotations/trips/whatever-your-shop-calls-them

Exactly. Most "soft pay" items in a contract are more about QOL than they are pay.

 

[BobDDuck]

They had like what, 35 total? Not that many compared to say Delta at the time even preNWA merger.

No idea. But even so, 35 != 0.

 

[derg]

I'll tell ya whut, Bobby, but if we were paid anything less than 100% DH, that three hour sit would turn into a 30 minute turn, a deadhead from SLC to LAX and a leg to SFO.

My reserve months where I'm still below "the cap", crew scheduling gets very creative. DH to A, fly A to B. DH from B, layover in C...

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

American has plenty of widebodies, just ask them. Anyways, all three legacy majors have similar numbers of widebodies.

Yes..... they're called flight attendants.

 

[Xcaliber]

Yes..... they're called flight attendants.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooh SNAP!

 

[adreamer]

just wondering about health care package in your TA?

 

[Blackhawk]

just wondering about health care package in your TA?

Doesn't really matter. If it's great it will be hit with the "Cadillac tax" next year along with most of the airline health plans.

 

[Blackhawk]

100% deadhead is a wonderful way of nudging the company into making more efficient pairings/rotations/trips/whatever-your-shop-calls-them

Exactly. And if they don't? Who cares. I get to snooze in the back, though it seems that I am never as sleepy in the cabin as I am in the cockpit.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

100% deadhead is a wonderful way of nudging the company into making more efficient pairings/rotations/trips/whatever-your-shop-calls-them

"This is crap! Someone call the Rotation Construction Committee! Ahmma file a greevumps!"

 

[adreamer]

If it's great it will be hit with the "Cadillac tax" next year along with most of the airline health plans

The line from a former FO of my company, after he jump to another regional, his comments "I pay most of my 1st year monthly paid for health insurance." It is important. Not just pay scale.

 

[SoCalAprch]

There is a health insurance cap just can't remember what it is.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

Doesn't really matter. If it's great it will be hit with the "Cadillac tax" next year along with most of the airline health plans.

I'm betting that gets repealed. Too many interests fighting to get rid of it.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Exactly. And if they don't? Who cares. I get to snooze in the back, though it seems that I am never as sleepy in the cabin as I am in the cockpit.

I still do not enjoy deadheading.

 

[HRDiva]

I'm betting that gets repealed. Too many interests fighting to get rid of it.

Then ACA fails. The days of $1 Rx and $5 copays have to end. People have to stop going to the doctor for a simple cold, insisting on a Rx, filling it but never using it because the cold was gone.