Originally Posted by
Velocipede
But, they cut the pay scales AFTER B6 showed them they could do it and get away with it. Look at the time line. The B6 media darlings helped accelerate the downward spiral. You're a part of that, whether you want to admit it or not.
Well V, that's exactly what I heard at my last company. Other airline pilots chastising us for the money that we were being paid to fly our planes. Now that company is leading the industry in pay and benefits that will most likely never be matched by the legacies again. That company was ups. On one hand I see your point. Many companies management teams used B6 as the example for cutting the legacy pay. However, it was simply a convenient choice for management to pick on B6. We were there and the timing was right and lagacies management has always been greedy. Although, there have been many before B6 and some of those carriers are still in business today...still paying a wage that is not very far from their first days. B6 did not start a thing. This is the same song that has been hounding this industry since deregulation. B6 is merely the flavor of the day. Look to the management for your woes. Where do you believe pay scales would be now if everything else in the past 7 years was the same except...B6 was never created? I sincerely doubt that they would be higher than now...B6 or not.