Originally Posted by
FlyJSH
If, and that is a BIG IF, if we get the additional 900s, when all is said and done, Pinnacle will have roughly 100 aircraft. That means around 1100 pilots total, 550 will be FOs.
Under the 1113, what was top FO pay again? $34/hour? So $30,600/year guarantee? Less the cost of a crash pad... about $28,000. That is equal to $14/hour at a regular job. It's also less than the average first year McDonald's store manager.
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If you can feed the starving brats on $28,000 while commuting and sitting reserve, feel free to vote on a rock bottom TA. But, given the choice of a horrific contract that merely delays my eventual unemployment or demanding honest pay until my hastened unemployment, I choose the latter.
The math is a real tough thing to argue with. Unemployment pays more than FO pay and you don't have to be an airlines *****. Stay home with the kiddies and actually get to know your kid vs Dayton Ohio for 8 hr overnight with no food. All pilots at the regional level have put up with this nonsense long enough. I think if enough people are forced to look outside this industry they will find that there are better options out there.