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Southwest Agrees to Pay 7 Percent More to Pilot Boeing 737-200s.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2002
By Terry Maxon, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 27--Southwest Airlines Co. has agreed to pay its captains and first officers 7 percent more money for piloting the carrier's dwindling fleet of Boeing 737-200s, the company and pilots' union said Friday.
The agreement, which has to be ratified by pilots, resolves a dispute stemming from Southwest's decision to fly the older Boeing 737-200s only from airports in Dallas and Houston.
With only 27 such airplanes left in Southwest's growing fleet, the airline feared that most pilots wouldn't fly a Boeing 737-200 often enough to stay "current" on that type of aircraft.
Southwest's solution was to base the airplanes in Dallas and Houston so that pilots...
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