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Our FA says big raises at Transat....any truth to this?
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Yeah. New pay tables with pretty significant increases.
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Now they can go to the arbitrator for the Air Canada seniority merger and say "Look how much we make!".
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It's still WAAAY less than AC.

If anything it helps ACPA get some raises for the first 4 years without doing much.
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derateNO wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 7:28 pm It's still WAAAY less than AC.

If anything it helps ACPA get some raises for the first 4 years without doing much.
Not accurate at all. Comparing apples to apples, the TS 320 payscale is higher at every year than at AC. Also working 6-12 days a month at most.
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DanWEC wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:42 pm
derateNO wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 7:28 pm It's still WAAAY less than AC.

If anything it helps ACPA get some raises for the first 4 years without doing much.
Not accurate at all. Comparing apples to apples, the TS 320 payscale is higher at every year than at AC. Also working 6-12 days a month at most.
Not sure what payscales you are looking at. This is the new CA just negotiated.

I agree on the lifestyle aspect, they work less days. But they do work hard on the days they are at work. If all AC's flying was vacation destinations we too would have similar skeds.

As you can see NB is nowhere near AC NB rates. It's closer to Rouge or EMB190 rates. But the first 4 new hire rates are all higher than AC by a fair amount other than year 1. It tapers off a lot faster though after year 5 onwards.

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AC pay rates? Not far off.
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derateNO wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:01 pm
DanWEC wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:42 pm
derateNO wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 7:28 pm It's still WAAAY less than AC.

If anything it helps ACPA get some raises for the first 4 years without doing much.
Not accurate at all. Comparing apples to apples, the TS 320 payscale is higher at every year than at AC. Also working 6-12 days a month at most.
Not sure what payscales you are looking at. This is the new CA just negotiated.

I agree on the lifestyle aspect, they work less days. But they do work hard on the days they are at work. If all AC's flying was vacation destinations we too would have similar skeds.

As you can see NB is nowhere near AC NB rates. It's closer to Rouge or EMB190 rates. But the first 4 new hire rates are all higher than AC by a fair amount other than year 1. It tapers off a lot faster though after year 5 onwards.

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The 320 is classified as the Wide Body payscale. The NB is the 73 and will likely be gone in a few years anyhow.
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Re: Pay raise

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Mainline

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Flat Pay + Nav Pay

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Rouge Rates

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I take back the comment that it's closer to EMB190. More like A220.

Hard to factor a direct equivalent per hour rate with the Day/Night system. But these are the hard numbers, interpolate them as you please.

Also I am under the impression you don't start carrying YOS for Captain until Year 2 at AT. That's another small factor.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy they got a raise. They needed and deserved it. But it still is lower than AC overall and them coming up a few steps will hopefully help us (at AC) when this merger goes through. I don't really care about the list, it will be what it is. I'm more worried about CR trying to get more pay concession out of the pilots to equal AT's old rates which are now off the table. Thankfully.
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Looks like transat beats rouge on every scale and year.

This basically makes ts pilots equals or better to rouge pilots from a salary point of view, especially when considering how little they actually work? Removes any sort of negotiation that ts pilots will have a better career at AC and hence have to shove it on the seniority side of things?

Or am I wrong?

Hopefully a healthy debate can be made without any maple leafs falling off anyone’s hat :lol:
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You make a valid point. Maybe they are going to try to "merge" with ML not realizing we are all one list.

If we get their pay scales out of this at Rouge and for year 1-4 plus a 2-4% bump across the board, and their vacation entitlement and stats (9 vs their 11) I wouldn't be too unhappy.

Heck, maybe if the argument that the airline we created Rouge for now is no longer in existence AND paid more when we bought them we can just fold everything back together. The company has wanted reserve at Rouge for a long time, here is a good way to do it. Pay us all the same and paint the plane whatever colour you want.
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That's the word I'm hearing.

They need it to streamline costs and workforce. Show up at the gate, might be working an AC flight, might be a TS flight, might be a RV flight...

The key for us is to give them nothing to do this. Mainline rules and rates no matter the colour of the fin.
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altiplano wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2020 6:09 am That's the word I'm hearing.

They need it to streamline costs and workforce. Show up at the gate, might be working an AC flight, might be a TS flight, might be a RV flight...

The key for us is to give them nothing to do this. Mainline rules and rates no matter the colour of the fin.
Think about the cost savings if the whole 320 list was one list. I don't understand Rouge, I really don't.

I'm sure many socialists would hate the change but the ML guys/gals would love getting some of the good overnights back.
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Re: Pay raise

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Fu©k socialism.

Improve the productivity.
Improve the daily guarantee.
Make it calendar day DPG.
Stop the optimizing.

edit. Sorry for the hijack. Congrats on the raises. Have you guys voted this already?
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You and I think alike.

I can't understand why we don't have calendar DPG.
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Re: Pay raise

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GATRKGA wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:43 pm Looks like transat beats rouge on every scale and year.

This basically makes ts pilots equals or better to rouge pilots from a salary point of view, especially when considering how little they actually work? Removes any sort of negotiation that ts pilots will have a better career at AC and hence have to shove it on the seniority side of things?

Or am I wrong?

Hopefully a healthy debate can be made without any maple leafs falling off anyone’s hat :lol:
A 330 captain position at Transat is what, 8-10years? Air canada is 20+ years? During a merger it would be hard to say all 330 captains at Transat get a WB CA position at air canada when they have half the senority...going to be interesting!
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And while people like to point out how the 320 is WB rates at AT, their WB rates in general for actual 330 flying is low.

There's a lot of factors involved and honestly, my perspective? AT should really just be happy with whatever they get. Weather it's 4/1 or 5/1, even if they get lucky and get better than that, every single outcome is an improvement to their pay and long term earning potential. You won the lottery, take it and be happy.

That being said I'm sure they will fight tooth and nail to get everything they don't deserve but think they do. Anyone who thinks a 10 year WB pilot at AT is equal to a 25 year WB at AC is out of their mind.

If you want to use the argument "well AT pilots NB make WB pay so we should merge with only ML list because we make more than Rouge" then we should be able to rebuttal that "well if that's the case your WB pilots make what our NB pilots do so everyone slides into NB lists and not WB lists"

Glad I'm not on the merger committee.
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Re: Pay raise

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A 330 captain position at Transat is what, 8-10years?

6 years. Believe me it’s more challenging to fly a B737 than an A330...
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Re: Pay raise

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FL320 wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2020 1:37 pm
A 330 captain position at Transat is what, 8-10years?

6 years. Believe me it’s more challenging to fly a B737 than an A330...
That has nothing to do with anything.
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Re: Pay raise

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FL320 wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2020 1:37 pm
A 330 captain position at Transat is what, 8-10years?

6 years. Believe me it’s more challenging to fly a B737 than an A330...
It's harder flying a fucking DH8 7 legs a day, 18 days a month than 3 trips to Brisbane a month. Yet you don't see DH8 pilots making $300k.

I don't get your point.
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