Flufdriver - actually, you're quite right. As you can see from our website, our proposed pay rates are indeed somewhat higher than the norm - but bearing in mind that the primary focus of the company will be ACMI leases, I believe that the increased pay compensates for the flexibility required from our crews.
We will be implementing some of the things discussed here - including an ESOP and executive pay increases capped at the percentage increase in overall corporate profitability; and profit share/bonus for all.
Even so, our base packages for our L1011 captains come in at just under half that proposed by DALPA assuming 75 hours duty per month. That's what I'm getting at when I posed the question: Do Some Pilots Earn Too Much?