Originally Posted by
skyxbomb
Hmmmmm how about the few positives here?
I got my own room during training! Wait wait the company actually paid for hotel and paid new hires during training with 24/7 per diem. This is industry leading.
PSA was never late on my paychecks. I don't consider this an issue, every company payroll should be on time. Though I guess some really shady operators are late.
$350 uniform allowance annually after first year, 1.5x pay for working on day off. 350 is pretty good. 1.5x pay is pretty standard.
Good amounts of decent legs 1.5 hour plus flights although we have our share of 6 legs a day. Six legs? Yuck!
Good maintenance in general, which is very important.
Good crew at least 97% of the pilots with a few oddballs.
Less people moving laterally to another regional or straight out quitting than most other regionals. Which means many other regionals are even worse. I don't know anyone that's happy at a regional. We just have to hope to get out as soon as we can. Less compared to what? Call me a doubter but I highly doubt you have data on attrition for even your airline much less any others.
Most that are already at PSA or soon to be future new hires will have an opportunity to goto majors or fractional if they choose to in the next few years.
Our contract is not the worse but it's in the lower, not so good category. At least for the reserves that is. Senior guys here are pretty content from what I see. Most of us won't be here long enough to see the new contract.
A lot faster to upgrade than to goto a regional with 3000 pilots. True
10 days off for reserves, no pay for ready reserve, 10 hour ready reserve period are ALL industry lagging.
The split reserve/line day off is crap and even when you get paid 4 or 5 hour min day for ready reserve it isn't enough, getting paid nothing would really suck. 10 hour ready should be 8 or less. Good thing you're going to section 6 negotiations, just hope they get it right and don't sell the bottom down the river for the top.