Originally Posted by
ryane946
The Q400 is a 74 seat aircraft. Here are the proposed pay rates. Now lets look at GoJets. They fly 66 seat aircraft.
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Q400 CA Colgan CRJ-700 CA GoJet
$53- 1st year $57 - 1st year
$55- 2nd year $58 - 2nd year
$56- 3rd year $60 - 3rd year
$58- 4th year $62 - 4th year
$60- 5th year $64 - 5th year
Q400 FO Colgan CRJ-700 FO GoJet
$21 - 1st year $23 - 1st year
$26 - 2nd year $25 - 2nd year
$27 - 3rd year $34 - 3rd year
Does anyone else see a problem here??? Lower than GoJet. We can talk about unions all we want, and how some people want Skywest to get a union, but Colgan needs one, and about $10/hr added to their pay rates.
Ouch! Flying those planes at those rates is an insult. Horizon pays $65 first-year pay for the Q400. I don't care if it's a prop or not, those Dash's take a helluva lot more piloting skill than any RJ out there. Take an RJ guy, put him back in a turbo-prop like this one, and it's learning to really "pilot a plane" all over again. These pay rates are absurd.....