Originally Posted by
Lobaeux
I admit, I'm not very smart on this stuff, but just by going by APC Quick Take, 15 year FO at Southwest is making $151 an hour, probably gets his pick of flights, probably has a home near Dallas and all the other perks of being at Southwest.
Why would he go to United, for example, to start at year 1 pay, sit reserve and have to commute?
It's not the 15 year guys who will leave, it's the stapled guys, the newly-hired, and the low-to-midlevel FO's.
In six or seven years years from now, they'll be a senior wide-body FO at a Legacy, versus a mid-level 737FO at SWA flying a wheezing -300 from El Paso to Tulsa.