Originally Posted by
benzoate
Usair will retire roughly 50% of their pilots in the next 10 years. With a union the can negotiate better pay/benefits. They already have better retirement and insurance than JetBlue. More varied flying and real international flying. While the upgrade may be fast at JetBlue based on current retirements and expansion you may be on serve indefinitely. That is not a knock on the airline it's just the fact of a very young pilot group. The expansion is limited in that each new routes typically means reduced service in another city. For example DCA was heralded as growth when in reality is simply mean shifting flying from IAD.
Whether USair merges or not its still retiring massive amounts of pilots. 190 reserve for a career or potential 757,330 international?
I agree with most of this.
But did you look at the pay rates?
They can't even figure out what union they want over there.
So lets say the merger does not go do you think Parker is going
to give them a big raise?
If they merge good deal but remember before Parker was running around saying Airways couldn't make it without one.
If you want to move up super fast Airways will def give you that.
As for DCA we got the slots but we were short planes.
How often do DCA slots come up? We can grow IAD anytime we want.
If we want the business guy it's all DCA they hate IAD.
I would love to see more IAD but everyone has a hard time making that place work.